566 So. 2d 1213 - Walker v. Parnell’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 2018
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 493 So. 2d 1277 - Watson v. Lillard · Carter v. Kimbrough · HOWIE v. Baker · Ross v. Milner · 483 So. 2d 348 - Deposit Guar. Nat. Bank v. Roberts
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 power to dismiss for failure to prosecute is inherent in any court of law or equity, being a means necessary to the orderly expedition of justice and the court's control of its own docket. That this Court will not disturb a trial judge's finding on appeal unless it is manifestly wrong is a doctrine too well known to require citation.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“.... In all civil actions wherein there has been no action of record during the preceding twelve months, the clerk of the court shall mail notice to the attorneys of record that such case will be dismissed by the court for want of prosecution unless within thirty days following said mailing, action of record is taken or an application in writing is made to the court and good cause shown why it should be continued as a pending case. If action of record is not taken or good cause is not shown, the court shall dismiss each such case without prejudice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. Freeland · Curry v. Walls“In the case of Deposit Guar. Nat. Bank v. Roberts, 483 So.2d 348 (Miss.1986), this Court analogized dismissals with default judgments and reiterated that [a]s Mississippi Rice Growers Ass'n [ v. Pigott, 191 So.2d 399 (Miss.1966) ], supra, and Howie [ v. Baker, 232 Miss. 661 , 100 So.2d 113 (1958) ], supra, indicate, the general rule regarding dismissals is the same as default judgments-the dismissed case cannot be reinstated after the expiration of the term of court within which the dismissal was entered unless the dismissal was defective, or fraud, mistake or accident was involved. See also, Carter v. Kimbrough, 122 Miss. 543 , 84 So. 251 (1920); 27 C.J.S. Dismissal and Non Suit § 79 (1959). Id. at 351.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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