Samuelson v. Jorgenson’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 2016
4 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 Wagner v. Truesdell · Jensen Ranch, Inc. v. Marsden · Estate of Billings v. Deadwood Congregation of Jehovah Witnesses · Holmes v. Miller · Western Air Lines, Inc. v. Hughes County
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An attempt to commence an action is deemed equivalent to the commencement thereof when the summons is delivered, with the intent that it shall be actually served, to the sheriff or other officer of the county in which the defendants or one of them, usually or last resided ... Such an attempt must be followed by the ... service thereof, within sixty days, (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ramsey v. Mathisrud“We need not determine whether the rule of substantial compliance recently articulated in Wagner applies, because this is a case of strict rather than substantial compliance with a statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Edsill v. Schultz“sheriffs of counties containing municipalities that extend into more than one county are officers of each concerned county for purposes of serving process under SDCL 15-2-31.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.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.