York v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 142 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 152 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably Southern Pac Co v. Denton (1892), John Roller v. Stephen Holly (1900)
5 federal appellate · 142 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.
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 152 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. “Before the enactment of this law an appearance for-, the purpose of having citation or service thereof quashed would not have been held to confer jurisdiction on the court over the person of the defendant, but such now is evidently made the effect of such an appearance, and further issuance and service of process becomes unnecessary, even when it is held that the citation or service was insufficient.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Devereaux v. Rowe““If the citation or service thereof is quashed on motion of the defendant, the case may be continued for the term, but the defendant shall be deemed to have entered his appearance to the succeeding term.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Devereaux v. Rowe
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.