Miner v. Punch’s Empirical Analysis
838 F.2d 1407 · 1988
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2007
7 federal appellate · 2 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 Aetna Business Credit, Inc. v. Universal Decor & Interior Design, Inc. · Santa Fe International Corp. v. Potashnick
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There being no valid service of process, the default judgment against Proprietors is an absolute nullity and must be vacated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n the absence of valid service of process, proceedings against a party are void”
2 later decisions 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.