Interstate Brands Corp. v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 2011
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 Carter v. Gullett · Hughes v. Dunsmoor · Robertson v. Martin
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“but that Carter did not suggest that as a result of the continuance the counterclaim was barred). The issue before the court in Interstate Brands was whether a similar time bar contained in section 1757 on transfers from small claims court applied from the date of the last, rather than the first, scheduled appearance: We find no expression in [section 1757] which permits a motion to transfer to be filed only before the original appearance date. The language of § 1757 merely states that such motions must be filed 48 hours before the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in passing, noted that the appearance date [in small claims court] had been once continued”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“time fixed in the order for defendant to appear.”
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.