Mely v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2015
13 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 · Societe Internationale Pour Participations Industrielles Et Commerciales, S. A. v. Rogers · Gill v. Stolow · Independent Productions Corp. v. Loew's Inc. · Producers Releasing Corp. De Cuba v. PRC Pictures, Inc.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] party `cannot ... avoid the consequences of the acts or omissions of [his or her] freely selected agent.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The rule reads in part: For failure of the plaintiff to prosecute or to comply with these rules or any order of court, a defendant may move for dismissal of an action or of any claim against him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he dismissal of an action with prejudice or the entry of a judgment by default are drastic remedies, and should be applied only in extreme circumstances.”
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.