Stern v. Beer’s Empirical Analysis
200 F.2d 794 · 1952
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 2004 · most notably Citizens Concerned for Separation of Church & State v. City of Denver (1980), Kaufman v. Western Union Telegraph Co. (1955)
25 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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 McNutt v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. · KVOS, Inc. v. Associated Press · Norton v. Larney · Smith v. McCullough · Realty Holding Co. v. Donaldson
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Defective allegations of jurisdiction may be amended, upon terms, in the trial or appellate courts.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Under the foregoing authorities, we are of the opinion that, if jurisdiction actually existed from the facts at the time when the complaint was filed, even though not properly pleaded, the proper construction of Section 1653, Title 28, U.S.Code, is that the formal defect in the pleadings did not deprive the Court of jurisdiction at the time when the action was filed, if such defect was later corrected.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the first service of process is ineffective, a motion to dismiss should not be granted, but rather the Court should treat the motion in the alternative, as one to quash the service of process and the case should be retained on the docket pending effective service.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vorhees v. Fischer
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.