Wick v. Rea’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 1988
24 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 Galpin v. Page · Peyton v. Peyton · Williams v. Pittock · Thompson v. Robbins · Rogers v. Miller
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Otherwise the court acts without jurisdiction. The rule, as stated in 17 Ency. Plead. & Prac., 45, “ ‘The right to serve process by publication being of purely statutory creation and in derogation of the common law, the statutes authorizing such service must be strictly pursued in order to confer jurisdiction upon the court,’ “was adopted in Thompson v. Robbins, 32 Wash. 149 , 72 Pac. 1043 , and has been followed in the following cases: [Citing cases.]””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘That the plaintiff herein, Thurston County, Washington, is the lawful holder of said certificates of delinquency; that summons and application for a judgment have been served in this proceeding as required by the statutes of the state of Washington, and such statutes complied with in all other respects pertaining thereto; ’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.