Martin v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably 611 So. 2d 869 - Rice v. Pritchard (1992), In Re Marriage of Leverock & Hamby (2009)
23 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 Brook Village North Associates v. General Electric Co. · Newell v. Hinton · 457 So. 2d 941 - Dennis v. Searle · Marshall v. District of Columbia · Dukes v. South Carolina Insurance
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he problems encountered by the [plaintiff] in this case could easily have been eliminated if a motion to withdraw or amend the answers had been filed pursuant to Rule 36(b) and if there were justifiable excuse.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“all of the evidentiary matters before it,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he evidence must be viewed in the light most favorable to the party against whom the motion has been made,”
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.