Harrington v. Rice’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably Olivetti Corp. v. Ames Business Systems, Inc. (1987), Howard v. Boyce (1961)
67 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 Salley v. Fayetteville Coca-Cola Bottling Co. · Dobias v. White · City of Monroe v. Niven · State v. Atkins · Rich v. NORFOLK SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n officer's return of service may not be set aside unless the evidence consists of more than a single contradictory affidavit (the contradictory testimony of one witness) and is clear and unequivocal.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage““When the officer’s return of the summons shows legal service, a presumption of valid service of process is created . . . [which] is rebuttable.” Defendant attempted to rebut this presumption [with two] affidavit[s].... As the evidence presented by the parties was contradictory, “the credibility of the witnesses and the weight of the evidence were for determination by the court below in discharging its duty to find the facts.” We thus will not disturb the court’s findings, and affirm that part of the court’s order holding service was properly made on defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[b]y delivering a copy of the summons and of the complaint to him or by leaving copies thereof at the defendant's dwelling house or usual place of abode with some person of suitable age and discretion then residing therein.”
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.