Gracie v. Palmer’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 federal appellate · 6 district · 11 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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““That the uniform construction, under the clause of the act referred to,, had been that it was not necessary to aver on the record that the defendant was an inhabitant of the district, or found therein. That it was sufficient if the court appeared to have jurisdiction by the citizenship or alienage of the parties. The exemption from ax-rest in a district in which the defendant was not an inhabitant, or in which he was not found, at the time of serving the process, was the privilege of the defendant, which he might waive by a voluntary appearance. That if process was returned by the marshal, as, served upon him within the district, it was sufficient, and that where the defendant voluntarily appeared in the court below, without taking the exception, it was an admission of tho service, and a waiver of any further inquiry into the matter.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Southern Exp. Co. v. Todd