Ferguson v. . Crawford’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 108 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently July 1965 · most notably Pettis v. Johnston (1920), Adelaide Tilt v. Otto Kelsey (1907)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 108 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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 Lowry v. Erwin
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““After considerable research, I have been unable to find a single authoritative adjudication in this or any other state deciding that, in the case of a domestic judgment of a court of general jurisdiction, want Of jurisdiction over the person may be shown by extrinsic evidence; while there are a great number of adjudications in neighboring states holding that, in the case of ■such judgments, parties and privies are estopped in collateral actions to deny the jurisdiction of the court over the person as well as the subject-matter, unless it appear on the face of the record that the court had not acquired jurisdiction, and that in such cases there is a conclusive presumption of law that jurisdiction was acquired by service of process or the appearance of the party.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. O'Connor v. Felix
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.