McCoy v. Hickman’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 2003
9 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 Webb Packing Co. v. Harmon · Spoturno v. Woods · Goldstein v. Steele · Weintraub v. Rudnick
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The law provides two methods of service of process: one is actual service, as by reading the original process to the defendant or delivering to him a copy thereof; the other is a substitutional or constructive service, as by leaving a copy of the process at the defendant's residence when he is absent, or by some form of notice by mail or publication as the statute may direct. "Personal service is the primary method of obtaining jurisdiction over the person of a defendant; and, in the absence of a statute authorizing a substitutional method, service of process must be personal. Webb Packing Co. v. Harmon, Del.Super., 196 A. 158 ; 21 R.C.L. 1269."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tl v. Wl · Rosemary K. v. Kevin Dc“"Summoned William I. McCoy by leaving a true copy of the within writ together with a copy of the plaintiff's statement of claim at his usual place of abode * * * in the presence of * * *, an adult white person on the eleventh day of March A.D. 1940, six days before the return day of this writ. Returned this eighteenth day of March, A.D. 1940."”
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.