Veeck v. Commodity Enterprises Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
487 F.2d 423 · 1973
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2007 · most notably Thos Gonzalez Corporation v. Consejo Nacional De Produccion De Costa Rica (1980), Combs v. Nick Garin Trucking (1987)
9 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1332 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005) · 28 U.S.C. § 1653
Relies on Pennoyer v. Neff · Robertson v. Railroad Labor Board · Commissioner v. Estate of Bosch · United States of America for the Use of Theodore A. Tanos v. St. Paul Mercury Insurance Company
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(c) (2)(C) A summons and complaint may be served upon [an individual] defendant ... (i) pursuant to the law of the State in which the district court is held for the service of summons or other like process upon such defendant in an action brought in the court of general jurisdiction of that State, or ... (d) (1) ... by delivering a copy of the summons and of the complaint to him personally or by leaving copies thereof at his dwelling house or usual place of abode with some person of suitable age and discretion then residing therein____ (e) ... Whenever a statute or rule of court of the state in which the district court is held provides (1) for service of a summons ... upon a party not an inhabitant of or found within the state ... service may ... be made under the circumstances and in the manner prescribed in the statute or rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“an allegation that a corporation is a citizen of a state is insufficient without an allegation as to the state in which it is incorporated and that state in which it has its principal place of business.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in strict conformance with a valid statute authorizing it.”
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.