Conley v. Conley’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 1949
8 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 Wells v. American Express Co. · Steen v. Norton · Rains v. City of Oshkosh
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Thus it will be observed that the first step in the action is the filing of a complaint with the justice in which must be stated, among other things, ‘the facts which authorize the removal of the person in possession.’ Such a complaint must be so filed before the justice can lawfully issue process to bring in the tenant. If any material fact is omitted from the complaint which the statute requires to be stated therein, the justice has no jurisdiction to issue a summons, and because the action is entirely statutory such want of jurisdiction goes to the subject matter, and is not cured by a general appearance, of the tenant. . . . Sec. 3358 informs us what facts are conditions precedent to the maintenance of the action. . . . The existence of these facts must be stated in the complaint, or the justice has no jurisdiction to issue a summons or take any proceedings in the matter. ... It is quite immaterial if the facts thus omitted in the complaint were proved on the trial. The statute is imperative that they must be stated in the complaint or jurisdiction of the subject matter is not obtained.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hartnip v. Fields
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.