Moss v. Fitch’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1961 · most notably Beckmann v. Beckmann (1949), Thayer v. Denver & Rio Grande R. R. (1916)
2 federal appellate · 34 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 Ringer v. Holtzclaw · Lanitz v. King · Wilson v. St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Co. · Ellison v. Martin · Mohney v. Reed
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No process issued by the courts of this State and served upon the party defendant in another State can be the basis of a personal judgment. And this is true whether the party in fact is a citizen of this State or of another State.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““To determine just where the plaintiff stands in this case we take up two preliminary questions. First, what is the status of the judgment for alimony under which the plaintiff, on execution sale, purchased the property? To our mind, whatever may be the rule in other States, the rule is firmly established in this State that no personal judgment can be had on process of this State, executed' outside of the State, or upon service by publication.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chapman v. Chapman““The. plaintiff cannot introduce in his reply a cause of action different from that which he states in his complaint or petition; in other words, he cannot after answer is made abandon the cause of action set up in the complaint and make an entirely new cause of action in the reply.””
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.