REYNOLDS v. BIRNBAUM’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2004
18 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 376 So. 2d 667 - B & M HOMES, INC. v. Hogan · 379 So. 2d 582 - Bracy v. Sippial Elec. Co., Inc. · 372 So. 2d 1099 - Poston v. Gaddis · 351 So. 2d 917 - Walker v. Traughber
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the grant or denial of leave to amend is a matter that is within the discretion of the trial court and is subject to reversal on appeal only for an abuse of discretion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"A party may amend his pleading once as a matter of course at any time before a responsive pleading is served, or, if the pleading is one to which no responsive pleading is permitted and the action has not been placed upon the trial calendar, he may so amend it at any time within 30 days after it is served. Otherwise a party may amend his pleading without leave of court but subject to disallowance on the court's own motion or motion to strike of an adverse party; but such amendments shall be freely allowed when justice so requires. A party shall plead in response to an amended pleading within the time remaining for response to the original pleading or within 10 days after service of the amended pleading, whichever period may be longer, unless the court otherwise orders."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“of the court. Reynolds petitioned this court to issue the writ of mandamus to the Honorable William C. Barber to compel him to set aside that order. We conditionally granted mandamus, because it appeared, from the trial court's order, and from the record, that the trial court had in fact severed Reynolds's legal claims from his equitable claims, contrary to the spirit of Rule 2, A.R.C.P., which states:”
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.