Elvins v. Elvins’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 2004
9 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 Crim v. Crim · Murray v. Murray · Blackinton v. Blackinton · Moss v. Fitch · Wilson v. St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Co.
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.
““It must be conceded that, if the order here appealed from is purely a judgment in personam, then the court can acquire jurisdiction to make the order only by personal service within the limits of‘‘this State; for it is well settled that service by publication, or personal service beyond the limits of the State, will not support a judgment in personam.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chapman v. Chapman
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.