Williams v. . Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 1978
20 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.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Jurisdiction of the person depends on notice and the duty to give notice by service of a valid summons rests upon plaintiff. When jurisdiction of the person is challenged for that there was no legal service of a valid summons a motion to dismiss made on special appearance is ordinarily the proper method of presenting the question for decision.””
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.