Alseike v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 district · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently August 2009 · most notably Brown v. Keill (1978), Rakes v. Fulcher (1970)
2 federal appellate · 10 district · 62 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 Hickman v. Taylor · United States v. Reynolds · The Guilford National Bank of Greensboro, Administrator C.T.A., D.B.N., of the Estate of Joseph M. Coble, Deceased v. Southern Railway Company, and Third-Party v. Garland Batchelor, of the Estate of Annie J. Coble, Deceased, Third-Party · Baltimore & O. R. v. Saunders · McPherson v. Hoffman
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) When defendant may bring in third party. At any time after commencement of the action a defendant, as a third-party plaintiff, may cause a summons and complaint to be served upon a person not a party to the action who is or may be hable to him for all or part of the plaintiff’s claim against him. Leave to malee the service need not be obtained if the third-party oomplaint is filed not later than five (5) days after the answer to the complaint is served. Otherwise leave must be obtained on motion upon notice to all parties to the action. The person served with the summons and third-party complaint, hereinafter called the third-party defendant, shall make his defenses to the third-party plaintiff’s claim as provided in section 60-212 and his counterclaims against the third-party plaintiff and cross-claims against other third-party defendants as provided in section 60-213. The third-party defendant may assert against the plaintiff any defenses which the third-party plaintiff has to the plaintiff’s claim. The third-party defendant may also assert any claim against the plaintiff arising out of the transaction or occurrence that is the subject matter of the plaintiff’s claim against the third-party plaintiff. The plaintiff may assert any claim against the third-party defendant arising out of the transaction or occurrence that is the subject matter of the plaintiffs claim against the third-party plaintiff, and the third-party defendant thereupon shall assert his defenses as pro”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““. . . Discovery has a vital role in our code of civil procedure with its notice type pleading and its basic philosophy that mutual knowledge of all relevant facts is essential to the proper disposal of litigation and that prior to trial every party to a civil action is entitled to the disclosure of all such information in the possession of any person, unless the information is privileged. . . .” (Alseike v. Miller, 196 Kan. 547, 554 , 412 P.2d 1007 .)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Kansas adheres to the common law rale that there is no right of contribution between joint tortfeasors. . . .” (Syl. ¶ 4.),”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.