Brown v. Dobbs’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 2016
7 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 F. W. Means & Co. v. Carstens · Kovenock v. Mallus · ConAgra, Inc. v. Farrington · Bottorff v. Bethlehem Steel Corp.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[made it] apparent that the trial court determined that even though Brown was named as the defendant, State Farm was the actual party providing the defense. Accordingly, discovery directed to Brown was discovery directed to State Farm. It is also apparent that the trial court determined that State Farm and Biodynamies would effectively prevent Dobbs from obtaining needed information through conventional discovery. Accordingly, the trial court determined that it was necessary to place the onus and cost of producing materials upon State Farm and Biodynamics.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A trial court has broad discretion in ruling upon discovery issues, and we will interfere only where an abuse of discretion is apparent. [Brown v. Dobbs, 691 N.E.2d 907, 909 (Ind.Ct.App.1998) ]. An abuse of discretion occurs only where the trial court’s decision is against the logic and natural inferences to be drawn from the facts of the case. Id. Due to the fact-sensitive nature of discovery matters, a trial court’s ruling is cloaked with a strong presumption of correctness on appeal. Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“excerpts from depositions with Biodynamiecs's employees describing the symbiotic relationship between State Farm and Biodynam-ies.”
1 later decision 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.