King v. Ingels’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 1960
2 district · 13 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 Meador v. Manlove · Hawkins v. Brown · Wells v. Patton · N. A. Kennedy Butter Tub Co. v. First & Hamilton National Bank of Fort Wayne · Rullman v. Hulse
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is elementary law that a plaintiff cannot ordinarily get an unwilling adversary into court without valid personal service upon him In the jurisdiction in which the action is begun, nor can he-accomplish that end by joining as defendant some mere nominal party upon whom personal service can be .had in that jurisdiction when the plaintiff has in fact no bona fide cause of action against the defendant so nominally joined. (Citations.)” (p. 792.)”
2 later decisions 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.