Meier v. SENECAUT III’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
142 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 142 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably State v. Seering (2005), Jasper v. H. Nizam, Inc. (2009)
142 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 Yee v. City of Escondido · Lytle v. Household Manufacturing, Inc. · Sandbulte v. Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. · State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Pflibsen · Johnston Equipment Corp. of Iowa v. Industrial Indemnity
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 142 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a fundamental doctrine of appellate review that issues must ordinarily be both raised and decided by the district court before we will decide them on appeal.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage“When a district court fails to rule on an issue properly raised by a party, the party who raised the issue must file a motion requesting a ruling in order to preserve error for appeal.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]aken some affirmative action to effectuate service of process upon the defendants] or has been prohibited, through no fault of her own, from taking such an affirmative action. Inadvertence, neglect, misunderstanding, ignorance of the rule or its burden, or half-hearted attempts at service have generally been waived as insufficient to show good cause.”
3 later decisions 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.