LeConche v. Elligers’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
8 district · 379 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 389 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Gurliacci v. Mayer (1991), Grant v. Bassman (1992)
8 district · 379 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 Alexander v. United States · McKesson Corp. v. Division of Alcoholic Beverages & Tobacco · Alexander v. United States · State v. Magnano · Beaudoin v. Town Oil Co.
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 389 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although every presumption is to be indulged in favor of jurisdiction,”
47 later decisions quote this exact passage“Subject matter jurisdiction is the power of the court to hear and determine cases of the general class to which the proceedings in question belong.”
33 later decisions quote this exact passage“The purpose of the certificate is to evidence a plaintiff's good faith derived from the precomplaint inquiry. It serves as an assurance to a defendant that a plaintiff has in fact made a reasonable precomplaint inquiry giving him a good faith belief in the defendant's negligence.”
28 later decisions 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.