Hartley v. Vitiello’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 118 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 133 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably Hillman v. Town of Greenwich (1991), Pizzola v. Planning & Zoning Commission (1974)
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 118 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Hess v. Pawloski · Wuchter v. Pizzutti · State v. Staub · Grote v. Rogers · Poti v. New England Road MacHinery Co.
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 133 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“bring about a reasonable probability of actual notice of the pendency of the action to the defendant.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““The requirement that the copy be mailed to the defendant at his ‘last known address’ does not mean the last address known to the plaintiff, but does mean the last address of the defendant so far as it is known, that is, by those who under the ordinary circumstances of life would know it. Unless the defendant has departed for parts unknown, it means his actual address; if he has disappeared, it means his last address so far as it is reasonably possible to ascertain it.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“leaving of a copy with or at the office of the commissioner and the sending of a copy to the defendant are by the statute both made a part of the service of the process and are linked up in such a way that the legislature obviously regarded them as parts of one act”
2 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.