Kavanagh v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Long v. Shorebank Development Corp. (1999), Skipper v. Schumacher (1936)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 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 Owens v. Ranstead · Manson v. Duncanson · Davis v. Dresback · 12 Colo. App. 220 - Dubois v. Clark · Wilson v. Hawthorne
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On any “direct attack on a judgment upon the ground that there was no service, if third parties have not acquired rights upon the faith of the return, and no one is affected except the parties in the case in which the return is made, oral evidence is admissible for the purpose of impeaching the record.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blaker v. Lushbaugh
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.