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Sellery v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis

1942

Citation profile

25
cited by 25 later decisions
1
states following
August 2011
most recently cited

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

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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.

  1. “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
  2. “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.