Swift v. Leasure’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 1996
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 Wuchter v. Pizzutti · Webb Packing Co. v. Harmon · Syracuse Trust Co. v. Keller · Sorenson v. Stowers · Kraft v. Bahr
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defendant was involved in an accident which obviously was of a relatively serious nature and he certainly must have been aware of possible future litigation. Having once submitted an address to the public authorities wherein legal process could be served upon him, he was under a continuing duty to keep this address current for a reasonable period of time. He apparently did not do this as it would appear that well within the statute of limitations period he moved without leaving with the Post Office authorities any forwarding address. The burden of furnishing the Post Office with a forwarding address was negligible compared with the difficulties imposed upon the plaintiffs to establish defendant's whereabouts by means of an independent and, perhaps, expensive search. Under these circumstances the Court will not impose upon plaintiffs the obligation to ferret out the actual location of defendant. Certification that delivery was attempted at the address furnished by the defendant at the time of the accident will satisfy the jurisdictional prerequisites. In this view support may be found in a number of cases in other jurisdictions. Kraft v. Bahr, 256 Iowa 822 , 128 N.W.2d 261 (1964); Skinner v. Mueller, 1 Wis.2d 328 , 84 N.W.2d 71 (1957); Sorenson v. Stowers, supra [ 251 Wis. 398 , 29 N.W.2d 512 (1947)].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Colley v. Dyer““Not later than seven days following * * * the filing with the Court of the proof of the non-receipt of notice provided for in subsection (e) of this section ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Purnell v. Dodman
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.