Firestone v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2008 · most notably Beard v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (1991), Perry v. Sera (1993)
34 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 National Hockey League v. Metropolitan Hockey Club, Inc. · Gill v. Stolow · Kohlenberger, Inc. v. Tyson's Foods, Inc. · Peitzman v. City of Illmo · Gallegos Ex Rel. Estate of Gallegos v. Franklin
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“FAILURE TO MAKE OR COOPERATE IN DISCOVERY: SANCTIONS (b) FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH ORDER. ****** (2) SANCTIONS BY THIS COURT. If a party ... fails to obey an order to provide or permit discovery, ... the court [in which the action is pending] may make such orders in regard to the failure as are just, and among others the following. ****** (C) An order ... dismissing the action or proceeding or any part thereof, or rendering a judgment by default against the disobedient party ...”
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.