Hall v. Goodwin’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 2026
10 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 Christian v. American Home Assurance Co. · Binks Manufacturing Co. v. National Presto Industries, Inc. · Thomas Organ Co. v. Jadranska Slobodna Plovidba · Janicker v. George Washington University · Conoco Inc. v. United States Department of Justice
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“2. TRIAL PREPARATION: MATERIALS. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3 of this subsection, discovery may be obtained of documents and tangible things otherwise discoverable under paragraph 1 of this subsection and prepared in anticipation of litigation or for trial by or for another party or by or for the representative of that other party, including his attorney, consultant, surety, indemnitor, only upon a showing that the party seeking discovery has substantial need of the materials in the preparation of his case and that he is unable, without undue hardship, to obtain the substantial equivalent of the materials by other means. In ordering discovery of such materials when the required showing has been made, the court shall protect against disclosure of the mental impressions, conclusions, opinions or legal theories of an attorney or other representative of a party concerning the litigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scott v. Peterson“The threshold question in determining whether the work product privilege applies is whether the statements were in fact prepared in anticipation of litigation____The Court finds that the information provided by Defendant is not sufficient to show that the statements were in fact taken in anticipation of litigation as opposed to being taken in the ordinary course of business of investigating an incident involving their truck and driver. To follow Defendant’s logic, virtually all material prepared after an incident would be privileged because litigation is always a possibility. The Court finds that this is contrary to the intent of the Oklahoma Discovery Code. As a result, the Motion to Compel is sustained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“has substantial need of the materials in the preparation of his case and that he is unable without undue hardship to obtain the substantial equivalent of the materials by other means.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Askew v. Hardman
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.