Reed v. . Chilson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 4 district · 35 state decisions

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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"It is urged that the defendants were obliged to appear and present the facts to the court or suffer default, and therefore the appearance was not voluntary. This does not change the effect of the appearance. When a party does not intend to subject himself to the jurisdiction of the court, he must appear specially for the purpose of raising the question of jurisdiction by ^ motion. or lie may allow the plaintiff to go on and take judgment by default without affecting his rights, since no judgment entered without service of process in some form could bind the defendant, and the question^ of jurisdiction would protect Mm at any stage of the proceedings for its enforcement, provided it has not been waived by his own act. But, if the defendant elects 10 come before the court and there try the questions, he cannot afterwards deny the jurisdiction, of be heard to claim that it was not a voluntary appearance.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hoyt v. Ogden Portland Cement Co. · Strauss v. Strauss