New York Life Insurance v. Dunlevy’s Empirical Analysis
241 U.S. 518 · 1916
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 7 district · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 198 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2018 · most notably Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Shutts (1985), Estin v. Estin (1948)
47 federal appellate · 7 district · 62 state decisions — followed in 15 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedNew York Life Ins. v. Dunlevy (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Pennoyer v. Neff · Hovey v. Elliott · Harris v. Balk · Reynolds v. Stockton · Chicago Ry Co v. Sturm
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 198 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The established general rule is that any personal judgment which a state court may render against one who did not voluntarily submit to its jurisdiction, and who is not a citizen of the state, nor served with process within its borders, no matter what the mode of service, is void, because the court had no jurisdiction over his person.” ( 241 U.S. at 522-523 , 36 S.Ct. at 614 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * was an attempt to bring about a final and conclusive adjudication of [Mrs. Dunlevy’s] personal rights, not merely to discover property and apply it to debts. And unless in contemplation of law she was before the court, and required to respond to that issue, its orders and judgments in respect thereto were not binding on her.” ( 241 U.S. at 521 , 36 S.Ct. at 614 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.