Smith v. Sellar’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 1990
7 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 Brown v. Music Incorporated
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not necessary to aver the capacity of a party to sue or be sued When a party desires to raise an issue as to the . . . capacity of any party to sue or be sued . . . , he shall do so by specific negative averment, which shall include such supporting particulars as are peculiarly within the pleader’s knowledge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kupka v. Morey
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.