Willey v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2017
24 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 436 So. 2d 530 - Chevron Oil Co. v. Traigle · 307 So. 2d 308 - Melancon v. Continental Casualty Company · Sparacello v. Andrews · Sparacello v. Andrews · Henderson v. Louisiana Downs, Inc.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A. An action is abandoned when the parties fail to take any step in its prosecution or defense in the trial court for a period of five years.... This provision shall be operative without formal order, but, on ex parte motion of any party or other interested person, the trial court shall enter a formal order of dismissal as of the date of its abandonment. However, the trial court may direct that a contradictory hearing be held prior to dismissal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“In this way, examination of the record will reveal the status of litigation with certainty and without resort to extrinsic evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“19. The court required counsels’ attendance at the Status Conference (Case Management Scheduling Conference) on June 12, 2007. Defense counsel did so, advising the plaintiffs’ counsel that it was her opinion that the action had been abandoned, and she was present to advise the court of that position. 20. After meeting with plaintiffs’ counsel and upon learning that the judge had left for a previously scheduled appointment, defense counsel advised the judge’s judicial assistant of the need for a telephone conference with the judge to discuss the abandonment issue, and one was held that afternoon. At that time[,] defense counsel advised the court of the defendants’ position that the case had been abandoned. 21. On that same date[,] defense counsel also requested that the plaintiffs’ counsel identify any cases(s) that would support his position that the action had not been abandoned. If he did so, she would certainly consider them, and, if he [was] correct, then she would not waste the court’s time, or his time by the filing [of] a motion to dismiss. 22. To date[,] plaintiffs’ counsel has not provided a single case in support of his clients’ position that the action was not abandoned. 23. In a telephone conference with plaintiffs’ counsel on August 1, 2007, defense counsel asked for ... his clients’ position that the case had not been abandoned. Plaintiffs’ counsel replied, “There are cases that say that the defendant has “waived” the abandonment argument by appearing at a statu”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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