Harris v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Lindauer v. Allen (1969), Thran v. First Judicial District Court (1963)
44 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 Pennsylvania Railroad v. Pittsburgh · Hicks v. Bekins Moving & Storage Co. · Romero v. Snyder · Pacific Finance Corp. v. Superior Court · Smock v. Fischel
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * Unless it is made to appear that there has been a gross abuse of discretion on the part of the trial court in dismissing an action for lack of prosecution its decision will not be disturbed on appeal. Raine v. Ennor, * * * 39 Nev. 365, 374 , 158 P. 133 ; Inderbitzen v. Lane Hospital, * * * 17 Cal. App.2d 103 , 61 P.2d 514, 516 ; Cohn v. Rosenberg, 62 Cal. App.2d 140 , 144 P.2d 399, 401 ; Allyne v. Murasky, * * * 200 Cal. 661 , 254 P. 564, 566 ; Brown v. Haymore, * * * 43 Ariz. 466 , 32 P.2d 1027, 1028 ; Hicks v. Bekins Moving & Storage Co., * * Cir., 115 F.2d 406, 409 ; Pennsylvania Railroad Co. v. City of Pittsburgh, 335 Pa. 449 , 6 A.2d 907, 911 ; Bancroft's Code Practice and Remedies, vol. 1, page 758, sec. 506, note 10; and 10-year supplement, vol. 2, pages 1581, 1582, note 12.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(e) Want of Prosecution. The court may in its discretion dismiss any action for want of prosecution on motion of any party or on the court’s own motion and after due notice to the parties, whenever plaintiff has failed for two years after action is filed to bring such action to trial .... A dismissal under this subdivision (e) is a bar to another action upon the same claim for relief against the same defendants unless the court otherwise provides.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any action heretofore or hereafter commenced shall be dismissed by the court in which the same shall have been commenced or to which it may be transferred on motion of any party, or on the court’s own motion, after due notice to the parties, unless such action is brought to trial within five years after the plaintiff has filed his action.”
1 later decision 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.