Lella v. Holman’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 7 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Failure .to file the papers mentioned in Civil Practice Act, § 231, renders the service of the summons invalid. As we have, then, no valid service of process upon the infant defendant, it follows that this court never acquired jurisdiction of the person of said defendant. This defect was not cured by the appearance, on behalf of the infant defendant, of his guardian ad litem appointed by an order of this court, and the service of an answer. This court had no power to appoint a guardian ad litem for the infant defendant, until it had acquired jurisdiction of the person of the infant defendant, and jurisdiction was not effected until service of the summons upon the infant defendant had been completed pursuant to the statutory requirements.” Crouter v. Crouter, 133 N.Y. 55, 61 , 30 N.E. 726 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Schuster v. Schuster