729 So. 2d 1243 - Robert v. Colson’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2016
20 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 688 So. 2d 1385 - Pierce v. Heritage Properties, Inc. · 715 So. 2d 174 - Foster v. Noel · Jones v. Hatchett · 555 So. 2d 713 - Motorola Com. & Electronics v. Wilkerson · Dawkins v. Redd Pest Control Co., 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Dismissal is to be used as a sanction only as a last resort. Lower courts should be cautious in either dismissing a suit or pleadings or refusing to permit testimony.... The reason for this is obvious. Courts are courts of justice not of form. The parties should not be penalized for any procedural failure that may be handled without doing violence to court procedures.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Trial courts have considerable discretion in discovery matters and decisions will not be overturned unless there is an abuse of discretion.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“hard and fast rule as to what amounts to seasonable supplementation or amendment of answers.”
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.