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261 F.2d 88 · 1958

Citation profile

50
cited by 50 later decisions
1
states following
February 1998
most recently cited

41 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently February 1998 · most notably Dredge Corp. v. Penny (1964), Barnes v. Smith (1962)

41 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Ragan v. Merchants Transfer & WareHouse Co. · Fairmount Glass Works v. Cub Fork Coal Co. · Fanchon & Marco, Inc. v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. · Continental Baking Co. v. Woodring · A. Maschmeijer v. Eastern Motor Express, Inc.

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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “an analysis of the Kansas decisions leaves no doubt that an action such as this is barred unless commenced by the filing of an action and the issuance of summons and service thereof on the defendant, all within the two-year period, or the issuance and service of an alias summons upon the defendant within sixty days of the expiration of the two-year period where no service was obtained on the original summons.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Hardwick v. Smith
  2. “The remedy available to improper parties is a motion to be dropped from the case, as provided by Rule 21....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 877 F. Supp. 1494 - Blong v. Secretary of the Army

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.