Denison v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 state decisions

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““That section expressly contemplates a service at home on one or more defendants, before the plaintiff can sue out further process or deliver a declaration to be served beyond the county on the rest, and, in the case of process, it evidently requires a return of fNot found’ as a preliminary. The language, though not precise, contemplates some evidence of service on one as a foundation for a further writ, and the same provision allows the plaintiff to have his declaration and notice of rule to plead, which are a substitute for process, f served on the defendants elsewhere served in any other county in this State.’ It was never intended that an absent defendant should be pursued until service was made and proved on the other within the jurisdiction. That is a condition precedent. A defendant has a right to know from the record whether he is subject to the jurisdiction; and, where it depends on a previous service on some one else, that can only be shown by the return of service or by appearance.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Baxter v. Grove · Allison v. Kinne