Wagner v. Truesdell’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Marshall v. Warwick (1998), Norsyn, Inc. v. Desai (2003)
6 federal appellate · 25 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 City of Watertown v. Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad · Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Rapton · 341 So. 2d 531 - Hauser v. Schiff · Devitt v. Hayes · Hartley v. Jerry's Radio & Electric Shop
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n advocacy of the doctrine of substantial compliance finds absolutely no support in our statutes concerning service of process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“To follow the strict reading of SDCL 15-6-4(d)(10) urged by Truesdell would be an absurdity. The constable could have handed the papers to Truesdell and then Richmond would have immediately taken them away from Truesdell to give to Truesdell's attorney. There logically is no need in this case for that "middle-person" step to fulfill the purpose of SDCL 15-6-4(d)(10).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[B]ecause the issue of the validity of service of process is a question of law, `we review the trial court's decision de novo, with no deference given to the trial court's legal conclusions.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Edsill v. Schultz
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.