Jonas Grossmayer’s Empirical Analysis
177 U.S. 48 · 1900
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 3 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1983 · most notably Ex parte Wisner (1906), Peterson v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. (1907)
34 federal appellate · 3 district · 25 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Goldey v. Morning News · Ex parte Schollenberger · In re Hohorst · In re Pennsylvania Co. · American Construction Co v. Jacksonville T K W Ry Co Same
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Art. 1223. Foreign- corporations, how served.—In any suit against a foreign, private or public corporation, joint stock company or .association, or acting corporation or association, citation or other process may be served on the president, vice president, secretary or treasurer, or general manager, or upon any local agent within- this State, of such corporation, joint stock company or association, or acting corporation or association.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.