Cannon v. Time, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
115 F.2d 423 · 1940
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 9 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently November 2008 · most notably Frene v. Louisville Cement Co. (1943), Putnam v. Triangle Publications, Inc. (1957)
12 federal appellate · 9 district · 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 International Harvester Company of America v. Commonwealth of Kentucky · Green v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway Co. · Philadelphia & Reading Railway Co. v. McKibbin · People's Tobacco Co. v. American Tobacco Co. · Consolidated Textile Corporation v. Gregory
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Little need be said as to plaintiff's contention that the officer's return is conclusive. The statement in the return, that the person served was an agent of the defendants, was nothing more than the officer's conclusion; and the contention that the court is bound by such conclusion on a motion to quash the return, is so manifestly unsound as not to warrant discussion. [citing cases]. Many troublesome jurisdictional questions could be solved very easily if the return of the process officer were accepted as conclusive. The courts, however, may not thus abdicate the judicial function to the server of process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.