Germanese v. Champlin’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably State Ex Rel. Sperandio v. Clymer (1979), Cloyd v. Cloyd (1978)
25 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 Casper v. Lee · Simms v. Thompson · State Ex Rel. A. M. T. v. Weinstein · Litzinger v. Pulitzer Publishing Company · O'NEILL v. Winchester
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.
“The general principle is that if a party takes any action which recognizes that the cause is in court and assumes an attitude that the jurisdiction of the court has been acquired, he is bound thereby and the action amounts to a general appearance.”
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.