De Rees v. Costaguta’s Empirical Analysis
254 U.S. 166 · 1920
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1956
4 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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 Hurtado v. People of the State of California · Chappell v. United States · Goodman v. Niblack · G. & C. Merriam Co. v. Saalfield · Turpin v. Lemon
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When in any suit commenced in any district court of the United States to enforce any legal or equitable lien upon or claim to, or to remove any in-cumbrance or lieu or cloud upon the title to real or personal property within the district whore such suit is brought, one or more of the defendants therein shall not be an inhabitant of or found within the said district, or shall not voluntarily appear thereto, it shall be lawful for the court to make an order directing such absent defendant or defendants to appear, plead, answer, or demur by a day certain to be designated, which order shall be served on such absent defendant or defendants, if practicable, wherever found, and also upon the person or persons in possession or charge of said property, if any there be, or, where? such personal service upon such absent defendant or defendants is not practicable, such order shall he published in such manner as the court may direct, not less than once a week for six consecutive weeks. In case such absent defendant shall not appear, plead, answer, or demur within the time so limited, or within some further lime, to be allowed by the .court, in its discretion, and upon proof of the service of publication of said order and of the performance of the directions contained in Che same, it shall be lawful for the court to entertain jurisdiction, and proceed to the hearing and adjudication of such suit in the same manner as if such absent defendant had been served with process within the said di”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Since the decision of Sheppard v. Adams, 168 U. S. 618 , it has been the accepted doctrine that, where there is a contention that no valid service of process has been made upon the defendant, and the judgment is rendered without jurisdiction over the person, such judgment can be reviewed by direct appeal to this court. This principle was restated and previous cases cited as late as Merriam & Co. v. Saalfield, 241 U. S. 22 , 26.””
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.