Hart v. Wolff’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
1 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2010
1 district · 19 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 Hickman v. Taylor · Societe Internationale Pour Participations Industrielles Et Commerciales, S. A. v. Rogers · Ferrell v. Baxter · Palfy v. Rice · Norman v. Young
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) Failure to Comply with Order. (1) Sanctions by Court in Judicial District Where Deposition is Taken. If a deponent fails to be sworn or to answer a question after being directed to do so by the court in the judicial district in which the deposition is being taken, the failure may be considered a contempt of that court. (2) Sanctions by Court in Which Action is Pending. If a party or an officer, director, or managing agent of a party or a person designated under Rule 30(b)(6) or 31(a) to testify on behalf of a party fails to obey an order to provide or permit discovery, including an order made under subdivision (a) of this rule or Rule 35, 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: (A) An order that the matters regarding which the order was made or any other designated facts shall be taken to be established for the purposes of the action in accordance with the claim of the party obtaining the order; (B) An order refusing to allow the disobedient party to support or oppose designated claims or defenses, or prohibiting him from introducing designated matters in evidence; (C) An order striking out pleadings or parts thereof, or staying further proceedings until the order is obeyed, or dismissing the action or proceeding or any part thereof, or rendering a judgment by default against the disobedient party; (D) In lieu of any of the foregoing orders or in addition thereto, an order treating”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Upon motion of any party showing good cause therefor and uiion notice to all other parties, and subject to the provisions of Rule 30(b), the court in which an action is pending may— (1) order any party to produce and permit the inspection and copying or photographing, by or on behalf of the moving party, of any designated documents, papers, books, accounts letters, photographs, objects, or tangible things, not privileged, which constitute or contain evidence relating to any of the matters within the scope of the examination permitted by Rule 26(b) and which are in his possession, custody or control ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Leach“In determining whether a party's actions constitute a refusal to obey an order to produce and whether the sanction expressly provided by Rule 37(b)(2)(a) should be imposed, the superior court’s discretionary authority is involved. We will reverse only if we are convinced that there has been an abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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