Devitt v. Hayes’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently October 2010
15 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on F. M. Slagle & Co. v. Bushnell · Herndon v. Herndon · Dacy v. Gors · Myron v. Coil · 368 So. 2d 1307 - FMC Corp. v. Chatman
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he court may dismiss any civil case for want of prosecution upon written notice to counsel of record where the record reflects that there has been no activity for one year, unless good cause is shown to the contrary. The term “record,” for purposes of establishing good cause, shall include, but not by way of limitation, settlement negotiations between the parties or their counsel, formal or informal discovery proceedings, the exchange of any pleadings, and written evidence of agreements between the parties or counsel which justifiably result in delays in prosecution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“we believe a judicial mind, in view of the law and the circumstances, could reasonably have reached that conclusion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“is not justified by, and clearly against, reason and evidence,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.