Sigurdson v. Del Guercio’s Empirical Analysis
241 F.2d 480 · 1956
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2008 · most notably Craig v. United States (1969), 509 F. Supp. 388 - Provience v. Valley Clerks Trust Fund (1981)
5 federal appellate · 5 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 5 U.S.C. § 1001 · 5 U.S.C. § 1009 · 8 U.S.C. § 1252 (§ 242 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on Skelly Oil Co. v. Phillips Petroleum Co. · Shaughnessy v. Pedreiro · Marcello v. Bonds · Fanchon & Marco, Inc. v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. · S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. v. Johnson
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.
“[t]hese John Doe complaints are dangerous at any time. It is inviting disaster to allow them to be filed and to allow fictitious persons to remain defendants if the complaint is still of record. Appropriate action has been taken by the trial court on its own motion in some such cases. Although the fact that the Rules of Civil Procedure, 28 U.S.C.A., contain no express prohibition upon the subject, there is no authority of which we are aware for the joining of fictitious defendants in an action under a federal statute. These defendants should have been eliminated by motion of [defendant] Del Guercio.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““These John Doe complaints are dangerous at any time. It is inviting disaster to allow them to be filed and to allow fictitious persons to remain defendants if the complaint is still of record. Appropriate action has been taken by the trial court on its own motion in some such cases. Although”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.