Bengtson v. Setterberg’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Estate of Hamilton H. Peyton, Deceased, John L. Peyton, and Olive Peyton v. Commissioner or Internal Revenue (1963), Hardenbergh v. Commissioner (1952)
8 federal appellate · 23 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 Ruth Doran v. John a Kennedy · Beisiegel v. New York Central Railroad · Ladd v. Weiskopf · Davis v. Hudson · American Motorists Insurance v. Central Garage
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The enactment of the legislation providing for declaratory judgments has not detracted from the rule that judgments are not subject to collateral attack; so, an action for a declaratory judgment cannot be used to attack collaterally the judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, although it may be used to determine whether the court had jurisdiction to enter any judgment at all in the matter involved." (Emphasis added) 26 C.J.S. Declaratory Judgments § 43, p. 125.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Rights under a decree, when left in doubt, are within the purview of the declaratory judgments act, and we believe that this court may determine what legal relations, if any, flowed from the decree entered by the probate court * * * and, by so doing, clear up the uncertainty as to rights of the parties involved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Spearman v. Salminen““* * * A probate court shall have jurisdiction over the estates of deceased persons and persons under guardianship, but no other jurisdiction except as prescribed by this Constitution.” 7”
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.