Dawkins v. Redd Pest Control Co., Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably 838 So. 2d 948 - Haggerty v. Foster (2002), Fred's Stores of Miss. v. M & H DRUGS (1998)
36 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 56 Cal. 2d 355 - Greyhound Corp. v. Superior Court · 564 So. 2d 1346 - Palmer v. Biloxi Regional Medical Center, Inc. · Universal Life Ins. Co. v. Veasley · Nash Mississippi Valley Motor Co. v. Childress · 589 So. 2d 1268 - Strickland v. Rossini
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In regard to matters relating to discovery, the trial court has considerable discretion. The discovery orders of the trial court will not be disturbed unless there has been an abuse of discretion.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] trial court's discretion in the discovery area is generally guided by the principles that (a) the court follow the general policy that discovery be encouraged, (b) limitations on discovery should be respected but not extended, (c) while the exercise of discretion depends on the parties' factual showings disputed facts should be construed in favor [of] discovery, and (d) while the importance of the information must be weighed against the hardships and cost of production and its availability through other means, it is preferable for the court to impose partial limitations on discovery rather than an outright denial.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where, however, limitations on discovery are improvidently ordered or allowed and important information is denied a litigant reversal will obtain.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.