Anderson v. Wittmeyer’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2018
8 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 Braeuel v. Reuther · Campbell v. St. Louis Union Trust Co. · State Ex Rel. Sperandio v. Clymer · Laswell v. Industrial Commission of Missouri, Division of Employment Security · Miller v. Munzer
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In any such action the petitioner shall proceed diligently to secure and complete service of process as provided by law on all parties defendant. If service of process is not secured and completed upon all parties defendant within ninety days after the petition is filed, the petition, on motion of any defendant duly served upon the petitioner or his attorney of record, in the absence of a showing by the petitioner of good came for failure to secure and complete service, shall be dismissed at the cost of the petitioner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Root v. England“[T]he purpose of such a proceeding is to determine whether there is a will or not[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Atkinson v. Firuccia
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.