Sopko v. Dowell Schlumberger, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably John's Heating Service v. Lamb (2002), 824 So. 2d 1137 - Austin v. Abney Mills, Inc. (2002)
25 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 Urie v. Thompson · Breck v. Ulmer · Clutter v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. · Concerned Citizens of South Kenai Peninsula v. Kenai Peninsula Borough · Wright v. State
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[elxcept as otherwise provided by law, a person may not bring an action ... for personal injury or death ... unless the action is commenced within two years of the accrual of the cause of action.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“not bound by the reasoning articulated by the lower court, and ... can affirm a grant of summary judgment on alternative grounds, including grounds not advanced by the lower court or the parties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the trial judge should inform a pro se litigant of the proper procedure for the action he or she is obviously attempting to accomplish,”
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.