Nelson v. Swift’s Empirical Analysis
271 F.2d 504 · 1959
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2012
5 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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 Schwarz v. Thomas · United States v. Sidotti
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.
“The phrase 'by law' refers to statutory provisions for substituted service”). There are other methods of proper service, such as “delivering a copy of the summons and of the complaint to the individual personally,” Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(e)(2)(A), or “leaving a copy of each at the individual's dwelling or usual place of abode with someone of suitable age and discretion who resides there,”
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.