Persons v. Summers’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably 42 Ala. App. 552 - Woodard v. State (1965), Reetz v. Ellis (1966)
48 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 Cullman Property Co. v. H. H. Hitt Lumber Co. · Engelhardt v. Jenkins · Madison Limestone Company v. McDonald · McHan v. McMurry · Francis v. Scott
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Service of process is not essential if the party intended to be served appears and defends and submits himself to the jurisdiction of the court. The purpose of process is to bring the defendant into court and may be by hiiir waived.... We consider the appearance requesting a continuance to be a general appearance because we have said that if a defendant intends to rely on want of jurisdiction over his person, he must appear, if at all, for the sole purpose of objecting to the jurisdiction of the court. An appearance for any other purpose is usually considered general.’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““The court erred in permitting amendments to the bill by interlineations on the original bill. The first sen- ' tencc of Equity Rule 28, subd. 1(a) reads: ‘Amendments of bills and answers shall be made on a separate piece of paper.’ The reasons for this rule are obvious. When a pleading is filed in court, it should not be changed or altered. Any change or alteration should be shown by a separate piece of paper. Interlineations could possibly require the overruling of a demurrer, when without them it should be sustained. And on review, this court does not see the original pleadings, but as they are copied in the transcript. It is imperative that each amendment be on a separate piece of paper so that it clearly shows at what stage of the proceeding the amendment was made.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blanton v. Blanton“The court also erred in permitting a newspaper article which described the judicial actions of appellant into evidence. The article was hearsay and objection to its introduction should have been sustained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.