Drago v. Drago’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently September 2013
4 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 302 So. 2d 5 - Imperial v. Hardy · 393 So. 2d 85 - Roper v. Dailey · 398 So. 2d 1257 - White v. White · 402 So. 2d 795 - Mayrson v. Chaplin
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Long Arm Statute provides that a certified copy of the petition and citation shall be sent to the defendant by registered or certified mail. § 3204. The statute further provides that no default judgment can be taken against the defendant without an affidavit of the individual who mailed the process to the defendant, showing that it was enclosed in an envelope properly addressed to the defendant ‘to which [affidavit] shall be attached the return receipt of the defendant.’ § 3205. “In the affidavit of 701’s attorney, John F. Whitney, verifying Long Arm Service, he stated that he sent a copy of the petition and citation to Mitchel R. Dukov at 1991 Crocker Road in Cleveland and he attached the return receipt signed by J. Huszai at that address. “The first question is whether the envelope containing the petition and citation was properly addressed. 701 Corporation was suing Dukov personally. The Crocker Road address was that of the corporation of which he was the president. His involvement in this affair with Breazeale and 701 Corporation had been in his representative capacity, not in his personal capacity. Breazeale had sought to get Dukov personally involved when it asked him to guarantee the note of the corporation but he declined to do so. “In any event, even if the envelope was properly addressed pursuant to § 3204 by mailing it to Dukov’s place of business a problem remains with the requirement of § 3205 that a return receipt of the defendant must be filed in the recor”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““In Louisiana service of process can be effected on a defendant either personally or at his domicile by leaving the papers with a competent person at the defendant’s domicile. In Roper v. Dai-ley, 393 So.2d 85 (La.l981)[,] the Supreme Court concluded ‘a party can be validly served at his place of business only by citation served on him personally.’ In other words, service of process cannot be effected on a defendant by leaving the papers to be served at his place of business.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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