439 So. 2d 162 - RYDER INTERN. CORP. v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 2010
8 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 · Burden v. Yates · Selby v. Money · Smith v. WILCOX CTY. BD. OF EDUC. · Alabama Public Service Commission v. Redwing Carriers, 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The general rule is that a court may, pursuant to Rule 41(b) and its inherent powers, dismiss an action for a party's failure to prosecute or to comply with court rules or orders. However, a dismissal with prejudice sanction, such as we in effect have in the instant appeal, is drastic and should be ordered only in extreme situations involving willful or contumacious conduct."”
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.