Walker v. General Features Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
319 F.2d 583 · 1963
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 1980 · most notably Wilshire Oil Company of Texas v. L. E. Riffe, O. Homer Riffe and Thomas J. Masterson (1969), Gkiafis v. Steamship Yiosonas (1965)
17 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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 International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Norwood v. Kirkpatrick · Steinway v. Majestic Amusement Co. · Houston Fearless Corp. v. Teter · Curtis Publishing Co. v. Cassel
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A. In all personal actions brought in any court of this state against any foreign corporation, process may be served upon any officer, director or statutory agent of the corporation, either personally or by leaving a copy thereof at his dwelling house or usual place of abode, or by leaving a copy at the office or usual place of business of the foreign corporation. “B. If no person has been designated by a foreign corporation doing business in this state as its statutory agent upon whom service of process can be made, or, if, upon diligent search, neither the agent so designated nor any of the officers or directors of the foreign corporation can be found in the state, then, upon the filing of an affidavit to that effect by the person to whom the process has been delivered for service in the office of the secretary of state, together with service upon the secretary of state of a duplicate copy of the process in the cause, the secretary of state shall accept service of process as the agent of the foreign corporation, but the service is not complete until a fee of five dollars ($5.00) is paid to the secretary of state by the plaintiff in the action. “C. Upon receipt of the process and fee, the secretary of state shall forthwith give notice by telegraph, charges prepaid, to the foreign corporation at its principal place of business outside the state of the service of the process, and shall forward to that office by registered or certified mail a copy of the process. Where the sec”
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.