Reynolds v. Page’s Empirical Analysis
1868
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 1914
1 federal appellate · 3 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 McMillan v. Reynolds
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The issuing of tho summons intended is issuing it accompanied with everything necessary to enable the party, when he receives it, to make it available for the purpose of effecting a valid service. * ® * And we think the summons not issued, within the meaning of the act, till all the papers essential to enable the plaintiff to make a valid personal service on the defendants, duly attested, are placed at his disposal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.