Wallace v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 2020
9 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 Link v. Wabash Railroad · Chambers v. Nasco, Inc. · Roadway Express, Inc. v. Piper · State v. Simpson · United States v. Alaska
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We conclude that the final sentence of CR 41(b)(1) means precisely what it says, a case shall not be dismissed for want of prosecution if it is noted for trial before the hearing on the motion to dismiss. The rule . . . thus limits the power of the trial court to dismiss for failure to prosecute after the issue is joined and the case noted for trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`Dilatoriness of a type not described by CR 41(b)(1)' refers to unacceptable litigation practices other than mere inaction, whatever the duration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“overrule old cases that have been superseded by a significant change in the [court] rule they interpret.”
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.