Flint v. Noyes’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 state decisions

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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘In all cases where service may be made by publication, personal service of summons may be made out of the state by the sheriff of the county in which such service may be made.’ In making the service of the summons out of the state, a sheriff derives his authority from this statute, not from the state laws where he resides; and under this statute it seems to us that the service of the summons must be made by the sheriff in person, and'that the service cannot be made by a deputy or any other person acting as a substitute for him. The statute authorizes the summons to be served out of the state by a sheriff, and names no other person. Morris v. Patchin, 24 N. Y. 394 [ 82 Am. Dec. 311 ]; Railway Co. v. Cutter, 19 Kan. 83 .” “All exceptional methods of obtaining jurisdiction over persons * * * not found within the state must be confined to the cases and exercised in the way precisely indicated by the statute.” (Black on Judgments [2d Ed.] sec. 232, and authorities there cited.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. First State Bank of Addington v. Latimer

2. “'“In this case the sheriff of Buchanan county did not make service of the summons; therefore the statute was not complied with, and the defendant was not served at the time of judgment with the process of the court as prescribed by law. The deputy sheriff of Buchanan county had no more authority to make service than any other person acting as a substitute for the sheriff.” (p. 358.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Detmer v. Salinger