Read v. Ulmer’s Empirical Analysis
308 F.2d 915 · 1962
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2003 · most notably Anderson v. Nosser (1971), Posner v. Essex Insurance (1999)
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1 (Bankruptcy Judgeship Act of 1992) · 28 U.S.C. § 1292
Relies on Societe Internationale Pour Participations Industrielles Et Commerciales, S. A. v. Rogers · Robertson v. Railroad Labor Board · Earle v. McVeigh · Webster v. Reid · James Nations and Joseph Nations v. Nancy Ann Johnson and James Johnson
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It would seem elementary that if the court has no jurisdiction over a defendant, the defendant has an unqualified right to have an order entered granting its motion to dismiss. In the absence of jurisdiction over the person of a defendant in an action in personam, the orders and judgments of the court are void. [Citing cases.]””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“due to inability fostered neither by [their] own conduct nor by circumstances within [their] control.”
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.