Maxfield v. Rushton’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2011
8 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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 362
Relies on Link v. Wabash Railroad · Westinghouse Electric Supply Co. v. Paul W. Larsen Contractor, Inc. · 23 Utah 2d 247 - Brasher Motor and Finance Company v. Brown · 29 Utah 2d 259 - THOMPSON DITCH COMPANY v. Jackson · Wilson v. Lambert
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[EJven where a trial court finds facts indicating that 'injustice could result from the dismissal of [a] case, it can dismiss when a plaintiff has 'had more than ample opportunity to prove his [or her] asserted interest and simply failed to do so.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) The conduct of both parties; (2) the opportunity each party has had to move the case forward; (8) what each of the parties has done to move the case forward; (4) what difficulty or prejudice may have been caused to the other side; and (5) most important, whether injustice may result from the dismissal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[Thhe trial court should have a reasonable latitude of discretion in dismissing for failure to prosecute if a party fails to move forward according to the rules and the directions of the court, without justifiable excuse.”
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.