Beck v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2024
1 federal appellate · 13 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 State Ex Rel. Link v. Olson · Bergstrom Ex Rel. Bergstrom v. Bergstrom · Burlington Northern, Inc. v. North Dakota District Court, Richland County, Third Judicial District · Giddings v. Giddings · State Ex Rel. Olson v. Lynch
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"An order made by the district court or judge thereof without notice is not appealable, but an order made by the district court after a hearing is had upon notice which vacates or refuses to set aside an order previously made without notice may be appealed to the supreme court when by the provisions of this chapter an appeal might have been taken from such order so made without notice, had the same been made upon notice."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“until such time as the judge who made the order has a chance to reconsider his decision in an adversary proceeding.”
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.