Ruda v. McKinstry’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2000
14 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 Camp v. Booth · DeCarufel v. Colonial Trust Co. · Terminal Taxi Co. v. Flynn · McKirdy v. Cascio · Lucier v. Meriden-Wallingford Sand & Stone Co.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]very material allegation in any pleading which is not denied shall be deemed admitted, unless he avers that he has not any knowledge or information thereof sufficient to form a belief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that the injury to a man [in his seventies] was more painful and disabling than it would have been to a younger person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The pleading of no knowledge or information to these allegations is in effect a denial.”
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.