Chipperfield v. Woessner’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably Cunningham v. Yankton Clinic, P. A. (1978), Peterson, Ex Rel. Peterson v. Burns (2001)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 52 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 Hinkle v. Hargens · F. M. Slagle & Co. v. Bushnell · Fales v. Kaupp · Busby v. Shafer · Durr v. Hardesty
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since our function is that of review, issues not presented to the trial court are not before us on appeal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Statutes of limitations are necessarily arbitrary. That is their na ture . . . While their use defensively has on occasions been frowned on by the courts, that attitude has become less prevalent. This Court has said that a defense based on a statute of limitations is meritorious and should not be regarded with disfavor. It should be treated like any other defense. 84 S.D. 13 at 16 , 166 N.W.2d 727 at 728 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"An attempt to commence an action is deemed equivalent to the commencement thereof when the summons is delivered, with the intent that it shall be actually served, to the sheriff or other officer of the county in which the defendants or one of them, usually or last resided * * * Such an attempt must be followed by the first publication of the summons, or the service thereof, within sixty days." (emphasis supplied)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Arbach v. Gruba
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.