Powell v. Knight’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 1999
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Hess v. Pawloski · Wuchter v. Pizzutti · Hartley v. Vitiello · Carroll v. Hutchinson · 27 F. Supp. 978 - Devier v. George Cole Motor 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The requirement that the copy be mailed to the defendant at his "last-known address" does not mean the last address known to the plaintiff, but does mean the last address of the defendant so far as it is known, that is, by those who under the ordinary circumstances of life would know it. Unless the defendant has departed for parts unknown, it means his actual address; if he has disappeared, it means his last address so far as it is reasonably possible to ascertain it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Colley v. Dyer“rule is stated in Hartley v. Vitiello, 113 Conn. 74 , 154 A. 255, 258 (1931): The requirement that the copy be mailed to the defendant at his”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Colley v. Dyer
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.