Hill v. James’s Empirical Analysis

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18 state decisions

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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.

1. “The acceptance by a nonresident of the rights and privileges conferred by the provisions of this act, [8] as evidenced by his operating * * * a motor vehicle * * * in this State [9] * * * shall be deemed equivalent to an appointment by such nonresident of the Secretary of State of the State of Mississippi to be his true and lawful attorney, upon whom may be served all lawful processes * * * in any action * * * growing out of any accident * * * while operating a motor vehicle * * * in this State. * * * The venue of such action shall be either in the county where the cause of action accrued or in the county in which the plaintiff resides. [10] Any cause of action arising out of such accident * * * against any such nonresident, in case of the death of such nonresident, shall survive against his administrator, executor or other personal representative of his estate, and service of * * * process * * * when had * * * upon any * * * such nonresident owner, nonresident operator or agent or employee, or upon the executor, administrator or other legal representative of the estate of such nonresident * * * shall be deemed sufficient * * * to give any court of this State, in which such action may be filed * * * jurisdiction over the cause of action and over the nonresident owner, nonresident operator or agent or employee, or the nonresident executor, or administrator of such nonresident owner or nonresident operator, defendant or defendants, and shall * * * authorize personal judgment ag”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 910 So. 2d 502 - Sealy v. Goddard · 956 So. 2d 878 - Lámar v. Thomas Fowler Trucking, Inc.

2. “Either of these preceding words, ‘administrator’ or 'executor' refers to the legal representative of an estate, and though the method of appointment as to each might differ, one by law and the other by will, each signifies a representative capacity as distinguished from an individual capacity.”); Lewis v. King, 165 Ga. 705 , 141 S.E. 909, 910 (1928) (noting”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. McMahan v. Greenwood · 910 So. 2d 502 - Sealy v. Goddard

3. “authorize an action to be brought against the widow or minor children of a nonresident decedent in their individual capacities.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 910 So. 2d 502 - Sealy v. Goddard · 956 So. 2d 878 - Lámar v. Thomas Fowler Trucking, Inc.