Alexander v. Todman’s Empirical Analysis
361 F.2d 744 · 1966
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2016
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Idaho Sheet Metal Works, Inc. v. Wirtz · Leonard v. . Pierce · Alexander v. Todman · Alexander v. Todman
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person who sues or is sued in his official or representative capacity is, in contemplation of law, regarded as a person distinct from the same person in his individual capacity and is a stranger to his rights or liabilities as an individual. It is equally true that a person in his individual capacity is a stranger to his rights and liabilities as a fiduciary or in a representative capacity.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In an action prosecuted or defended by an executor . . ., costs shall be recovered as in ordinary cases, but such costs shall only be chargeable upon or collected from the estate . . . represented, unless the court order the same to be recovered from the plaintiff or defendant personally for mismanagement or bad faith in such action or the defense thereto.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wenner v. Government
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.