Hirsch v. Warren’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 1977 · most notably Toppass v. Perkins' Administratrix (1937), Vassill's Adm'r v. Scarsella (1942)
22 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 Hess v. Pawloski · Wuchter v. Pizzutti · Benge's Administrator v. Fouts · Grote v. Rogers · Sheetinger v. Dawson
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Even under statutes providing for the mailing of notices to the defendant, or to the defendant at his last-known address, the state officer whose duty it is to communicate the notice is not possessed of that information, but must acquire it from some one else. The plaintiff in the action against the nonresident defendant motorist is the person most concerned. If the address of the defendant is not stated in the• petition, there is nothing on which the secretary of state may act. Unless the plaintiff can find out where the defendant lives, he cannot obtain a judgment against him or collect the judgment after it has been obtained. In view of his interest in the matter, it is not to be presumed that plaintiff will act without proper inquiry or investigation, or resort to fraud that may defeat his action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Odley v. Wilson““Said action may be filed either in the county where the loss or damage may have occurred, or in the county where the plaintiff or one of the plaintiffs may reside.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hoagland v. Dolan
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.