Wheeler v. . Cobb’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2013
1 federal appellate · 12 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The service of summons by publication is fatally defective, in that it does not conform to the requirements of the statute. The foundation and first step of service by publication, is an affidavit that the person upon whom the summons is to be served cannot, after due diligence, be found within the state.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Flint v. Coffin
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.