Upson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
733 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 735 later decisions — most recently April 2008 · most notably Barde v. Board of Trustees (1988), Johnson v. Department of Public Health (1998)
733 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 Carpenter v. Planning & Zoning Commission · Baldwin Piano & Organ Co. v. Blake · Hartford National Bank & Trust Co. v. Tucker · White-Bowman Plumbing & Heating, Inc. v. Biafore · Horak v. State
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 735 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A motion to dismiss tests, inter alia, whether, on the face of the record, the court is without jurisdiction.”
286 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he motion to dismiss is the proper vehicle for claiming any lack of jurisdiction in the trial court.”
40 later decisions quote this exact passage“If the face of the record indicates that the court is without jurisdiction, the complaint must be dismissed.”
13 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.