Gilpin v. Joyce’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably Ghameshlouy v. Com. (2010), Collins v. Shepherd (2007)
46 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 Dennis v. Jones · Gilbreath v. Brewster · Nixon v. Rowland · Norfolk & Ocean View Railway Co. v. Consolidated Turnpike Co.
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An appearance for any other purpose than questioning the jurisdiction of the court — because there was no service of process, or the process was defective, or the action was commenced in the wrong county, or the like — is general and not special, although accompanied by the claim that the appearance is only special.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A person, upon whom process to answer any action has been served, may take advantage of the defect in the issuance, service, or return thereof by a motion to quash filed prior to or simultaneously with the filing of any pleading on the merits____”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not permit [the defendant] to simultaneously make a general appearance and assert the protection of the bar provided in Rule 3:3 because he was not served with process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lyren v. Ohr
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.