Francis v. Knerr’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2016
1 district · 12 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 Plano Manufacturing Co. v. Kaufert · Berryhill v. Sepp · Lockway v. Modern Woodmen of America · Flanery v. Kusha · Lee v. Clark
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.
““It is recognized, however, that the notice, by the service of which the court requires [acquires] jurisdiction of the defendant, must, in substance, comply with the requirements of the statute, and must be sufficient to inform the defendant of the essential matters which the statute requires to be stated therein for the purpose of enabling him to answer and defend.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tharp v. Tharp““* * * It is sufficient in this regard if it clearly informs the defendant that it is intended for him and requires him to answer the complaint.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tharp v. Tharp
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.