Berner v. Farny’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 1992
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 La Tourette v. McMaster · Rovinski v. Rowe · Townsend v. Bucyrus-Erie Co. · Jeffcott v. Donovan
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.
“Indeed, whenever a defendant comes into court to challenge the service of process he, of necessity, has received notice of the suit, but, clearly mere `notice' is not a sufficient ground upon which a court can sustain the validity of service of process when Congress has established other definitive standards.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ransom v. Brennan
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.