Holliman v. Redman Development Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2008
4 district · 2 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Freeman v. Seligson · Thomas Organ Co. v. Jadranska Slobodna Plovidba · Horizons Titanium Corp. v. Norton Co. · Jeppesen v. Swanson
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... Parties may obtain discovery regarding any matter, not privileged, which is relevant to the subject matter involved in the pending action, whether it relates to the claim or defense of the party seeking discovery or to the claim or defense of any other party, including the existence, description, nature, custody, condition and location of any books, documents, or other tangible things and the identity and location of persons having knowledge of any discoverable matter.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[p]laintiff's knowledge of defendant's net worth may lead to settlement and avoid protracted litigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Breault v. Friedli
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.