Wilson v. Smart’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably 79 Ill. App. 3d 264 - Lain v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance (1979), Dauwalter v. Commissioner (1947)
7 federal appellate · 16 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 Pennoyer v. Neff · Pennington v. Fourth National Bank of Cincinnati · Blackinton v. Blackinton · Forrester v. Forrester · Austin v. Royal League
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although a Court is powerless to enter a personal decree based solely on constructive service or process against a non-resident defendant, yet it has power to deal with his property within the court’s territorial jurisdiction. Substituted service by publication and mailing, or in any other authorized form,, is usually sufficient where the object of the action is to reach and dispose of property, or of some interest in property, within the state. Such service may answer in all actions which are substantially proceedings in rem.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mowrey v. Mowrey
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.