Hancock v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
231 F.2d 652 · 1956
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 1996
15 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Calderon v. Tobin
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * the district court was without jurisdiction of the persons of the defendants for they were not served in the district of New Jersey.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bessel v. Clyde
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.