Whittaker v. Dail’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Halper · National Labor Relations Board v. International Longshoremen's Ass'n · McFarlan v. Fowler Bank City Trust Co. · Hansen v. Johns-Manville Products Corp. · Taber v. Hutson
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We cannot say that the trial court’s conclusion that excusable neglect had not been shown is an abuse of his discretion — an erroneous conclusion clearly against the logic and effect of the facts or the reasonable, probable deductions to be drawn therefrom.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whittaker v. Dail
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.