Walker v. Dallas’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2018
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 Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Schroeder v. City of New York · Walker v. City of Hutchinson · Henry McDonald v. F a Mabee · Dobkin v. Chapman
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule in Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. recognizes that persons can be bound even if they cannot be found through reasonably diligent search. Assuming that such a search has been made, the fiction is indulged that publication notifies the absentee____ It is the search for the absentee that gives expression to the concern for the protection of his opportunity to be heard [rather than the notice by publication] ... publication of notice is a ceremony whose performance assures that the termination of the absentee's rights is not done in secret.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rouzaud v. Marek“[S]ervice by publication is constitutionally sufficient where the defendant willfully leaves the state to evade service of process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ruffino v. Lokosky
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.