Midkiff v. Lusher’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 2010
7 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 Hoffman v. Bircher · Hill v. Ruffner
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“»* * * @v¡ jf jje [the defendant] be not found at his usual place of abode, by delivering such copy and giving information of its purport to his wife or any person found there, who is a member of his family, and above the age of 16 years; or, if neither he nor his wife, nor any such person be found there, by leaving such copy posted at the front.door of said place of abode. Any sheriff, sergeant or constable, thereto required, shall serve a notice within his county or corporation, and make return of the time and manner of service, * * *. Such return, or a similar return by any other person who verifies it by affidavit, shall be evidence of the manner and time of service.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. King v. Davis
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.