Frost v. Hardin’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2015
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 Link v. Wabash Railroad · Alabama v. United States · Martin v. Walton · Texas v. New Jersey · Martin v. Davis
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.
““Orders of dismissal for want of prosecution rest in the judicial discretion of the district courts in order that they may control their dockets, eliminate procrastination and delay, and expedite the orderly flow of business . . . Such orders will not be reversed on appeal in the absence of a clear showing of abuse of judicial discretion.” (p. 263.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Appellant argued that proof of mailing notice to counsel ten days in advance of dismissal is not sufficient and that proof of actual receipt of the clerk’s notice should be required. We do- not agree. “In Board of Sup’rs v. Knickerbocker Ice Co., 80 F. 2d 248 (2nd Cir. 1935) it was observed that where a case is dismissed on the court’s motion under a court rule for lack of prosecution and where under the rule it is the clerk’s duty to notify the attorneys of the dismissal, the knowledge of the attorneys is not the same as mailing notice to the attorneys. “The rationale of Knickerbocker is applicable to our present case. The mailing of the notice followed by the filing of an affidavit of mailing fulfills the requirement of our statute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.