Walters v. Weaver’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 2010
2 federal appellate · 8 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 Ballew v. Young · Cordray v. Cordray · Core v. Smith · Public Finance Co. v. Jump
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where publication is relied on and jurisdiction is sought to be obtained of the defendant in an action by publication service alone, the affidavit for publication, as well as the publication notice, are matters jurisdictional, and, in order to obtain jurisdiction of the defendant in such case, both the affidavit for publication and the publication notice must comply with the provisions of the statute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Rowland“(1) set out any particulars of the account upon which defendants based their lien claims; (2) give a description sufficient to enable anyone to recognize the property; and (3) give definite information regarding the actual whereabouts of the prop erty, other than stating same was in defendants’ possession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.