Ex Parte Compass Bank’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Lander v. Hartford Life & Annuity Insurance (2001), Dowdle v. Aurora Loan Services, Inc. (2003)
1 federal appellate · 64 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 Foti v. Immigration & Naturalization Service · Campbell v. Eastland · 586 So. 2d 889 - Ex Parte Alfab, Inc. · 543 So. 2d 682 - Ex Parte Edgar · Hicks v. Globe Life and Acc. Ins. Co.
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A petition for the writ of mandamus is the proper means for obtaining review of the question `whether a trial court has abused its discretion in ordering discovery, in resolving discovery matters, and in issuing discovery orders.'”
21 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Ebbers · Ex Parte Cryer“Rule 26(c), Ala. R. Civ. P., recognizes that the right to discovery is not unlimited, and the trial court has broad powers to control the use of the process to prevent its abuse by any party.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Alapati · Ex Parte LSB“even in a fraud case, justice requires the trial court to protect a party from oppression or undue burden or expense”
2 later decisions 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.