Bartell v. Morken’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 2004
1 district · 10 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 Campbell v. McCahan · Kalb v. German Savings & Loan Society · Whitney v. Knowlton · Grandin v. Gardiner · Leigh v. Green
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All persons having or claiming any estate or interest in, or lien or encumbrance upon, the property described in the complaint, whether as heirs, dev-isees, legatees, or personal representative of a deceased person, or under any other title or interest, and not in possession, nor appearing of record in the office of the register of deeds, the clerk of the district court, or the county auditor of the county in which the land is situated, to have such claim, title or interest therein, may be proceeded against as persons unknown, and any order, judgment, or decree entered in the action shall be valid and binding on such unknown persons whether of age or minors, and on those claiming under them."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““We also point out in answer to a further objection by the plaintiff as to the validity of. these proceedings that there is no requirement as to unknown parties defendant that the sheriff make a return stating that after diligent inquiry for the purpose of serving the summons he is unable to make personal service upon such defendants. The absurdity of such a return is apparent. To require the sheriff to make a return in a civil action showing that he has made diligent search and inquiry for persons unknown and whose interests are unknown would be a completely idle and unfruitful act and one which the law does not contemplate.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stewart v. Berg““Niels C. Larsen, his unknown heirs or devisees if deceased; and all other persons unknown claiming estate or interest- in or lien or encumbrance upon the property described in the complaint herein, defendants.””
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.