Beard v. Beard’s Empirical Analysis
1863
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1956 · most notably Armstrong v. Armstrong (1956), State Ex Rel. Caldwell v. Hooker, County Judge (1908)
31 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 James D'Arcy v. Morris Ketchum Thomas Rogers and Edward Bement Copartners Trading Under the Name and Firm of Ketchum Rogers and Bement · Sturgis v. Fay · Eaton & Hamilton R. R. v. Hunt · Rice v. Rice · Junction Railroad v. Cleneay
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by means of some formal public notice, like that of the viis et modis of the Roman civil law, without actual personal notice of the suit, can not be reconciled with the principles of international justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mabee v. McDonald“all controversies respecting personal rights and contracts, or injuries to the person or property, when the party resides within the territory, wherever the cause of action may have originated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mabee v. McDonald“The authority of every judicial tribunal and the obligation to obey it are circumscribed by the limits of the territory in which it is established.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mabee v. McDonald
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.