Sellery v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably 53 Cal. 3d 257 - Walker v. Superior Court (1991), 125 Cal. App. 3d 436 - Engebretson & Co. v. Harrison (1981)
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 Gardiner v. Royer · Becker v. Superior Court of Santa Clara Cty. · Consolidated Adjustment Co. v. Superior Court · 31 Cal. App. 2d 114 - Ross v. McDougal · 1 Cal. App. 2d 410 - Harris v. Seidell
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If an action ... is commenced in a court which lacks jurisdiction of the subject matter thereof, as determined by the complaint or petition, if there is a court of this State which has such jurisdiction, the action or proceeding shall not be dismissed ... but shall, ... on the court's own motion, be transferred to a court having jurisdiction of the subject matter....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Ordinarily the relief claimed when the action is instituted determines the jurisdiction of the court over the subject matter for the entire proceeding. [Citations.] To ascertain the nature of and amount in controversy for determining the jurisdiction of the subject matter the complaint as a whole may be examined. [Citations.]”
1 later decision 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.