Want v. Leve’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2014
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 Davis v. L. L. Cohen & Co. · Simmons v. Fenton · 155 F. Supp. 354 - Lomax Ex Rel. Lomax v. United States · STATE EX REL. JEWISH HOSPITAL, ETC. v. Buder · 187 F. Supp. 680 - Adams v. Beland Realty Corporation
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.
“When a person desires to raise an issue as to the legal existence of any party or the capacity of any party to sue or be sued or the authority of a party to sue or be sued in a representative capacity, 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 passage · from the majority
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.