Zuckerman v. McCulley’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 1999
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 Rovinski v. Rowe · Colter v. Luke · 33 F. Supp. 529 - Skidmore v. Green · Lewis v. West Side Trust · Cohen v. American Window Glass Co.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““I hereby certify and return, that on the 15th day of October 1947, I received the within summons, and executed same by serving the defendant, Una McCulley by leaving a true copy of Summons, together with copy of Complaint attached thereto, as furnished by the Clerk of the Court, with an elderly Negro who answered the door and said that he was the janitor of the house but who would not give his name, at St. Louis, Missouri, on October 29, 1947. Otto Schoen, United States Marshal. By Ray L. Kirgan, Depúty United States Marshal.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]s we read the cases, substantial compliance with the Rules prescribing manner of service is required”
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.