Barnett v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 2023
16 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 Societe Internationale Pour Participations Industrielles Et Commerciales, S. A. v. Rogers · West v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. · Patel v. OMH Medical Center, Inc. · Silvestri v. General Motors Corp. · State Ex Rel. Tal v. City of Oklahoma City
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] trial court has inherent authority to impose sanctions . . . for abusive litigation practices or for abuse of judicial process, even if an order compelling discovery has not been made.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“This Court has also held that severe sanctions may be imposed for reasonably foreseeable destruction of evidence, even when there is no discovery order in place”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Factors that should be considered prior to choosing the most severe sanctions include the following: willfulness, prejudice, whether there was a warning that failure to cooperate could lead to dismissal, whether less drastic sanctions were imposed or considered, and the amount of interference with judicial process.”
1 later decision 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.