Clover v. Urban’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
2 district · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Hartford National Bank & Trust Co. v. Tucker (1979), Smith v. Smith (1962)
2 district · 60 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 Clegg v. Bishop · State v. Gorham · Fourette v. Griffin · Perry v. Hyde · Strong v. Strong
Most-quoted passages
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“'in the outer hall of a house occupied by two tenants' " under the general rule that service of civil process may be made at a defendant's usual place of abode. This court explained that "[i]n a sense it is of course true that [the plaintiff] had his 'usual place of abode' in Waterbury and in the apartment house in question, but it is manifest that leaving a copy of process anywhere in Waterbury or anywhere in the apartment house, would be insufficient. ... [S]ervice should have been made at the apartment occupied by [the plaintiff]. This did not include the outer hall used by the other tenant in connection with his apartment and occasionally used by [the plaintiff], any more than it included the walk from the street to the house, or the yard which the tenants used in common. In legal view, the apartments in a house of this character are as separate and distinct as though under separate roofs. [The plaintiff's] place of abode was as much a separate and distinct habitation as though in a building by itself. The outer hall was merely a passageway for his use in common with other tenants, and his place of abode was not reached from the street until one came to the door which led into his own apartment. The door of the apartment of each tenant is his outer door. ... Leaving the copy of the process in the outer hall was much the same, and it failed as completely as if it had been left on the common sidewalk or in the common yard.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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