Campbell v. McCahan’s Empirical Analysis
1866
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably Haywood v. Collins (1871), The St. Louis & Sandoval Coal & Mining Co. v. Sandoval Coal & Mining Co. (1884)
1 federal appellate · 32 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 Goudy v. Hall
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The eighth section of the chapter entitled ‘Chancery,’ under which this proceeding was had, is silent as to the time when the affidavit must be made. Whether simultaneously with the order of publication or prior to the making of the order is not declared. It simply provides that whenever any complainant shall file the requisite affidavit in the office of the clerk of the court in which the suit is pending he shall cause publication to be made. This, then, involves the necessity of giving a construction to this clause of the section. In terms it only requires the suit to be pending to authorize the proper affidavit to be filed and the order and publication to be made. The object which the legislature had in view, when ascertained, must be regarded and carried into effect. Our courts being powerless to send their process beyond the limits of the State and the legislature being unable to confer the power, to prevent a failure of justice in many cases it became necessary that some species of constructive notice should be adopted that the property of persons beyond the limits of the State might be rendered amenable to the process of our courts and justice thus administered to our citizens having demands against non-residents. Hence the adoption of this provision, which was designed, so far as may be necessary, to take the place of actual service. And to give effect to that intention the act must receive a fair and reasonable construction. This law being remedial in its character,”
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.