Pollard and Pickett v. Dwight et al.’s Empirical Analysis
8 U.S. 421 · 1808
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2017 · most notably Goldey v. Morning News (1895), In the Matter of Albertn Moore an Infant by Next Friend (1908)
16 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 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 Henry Toland v. Horatio Sprague · Eisenbach v. Hatfield · Chappedelaine v. Dechenaux · Bingham v. Cabot
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by appearing to the action, the defendants in the court below placed themselves precisely in the situation in which they would have stood, had process been served upon them, and consequently waived all objections to the non-service of process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.