State ex rel. Kearney v. Finn’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 1918
10 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 Lake v. Atlantic Works · Whitney v. Butterfield · Hinman v. Borden · Tucker v. Bradley · Taylor v. Wimer
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All that is required from the sheriff in such cases is that he shall, in good faith, make a reasonable effort to execute the process. If he were required to use all possible efforts to execute a summons in one case, he might thereby lose the opportunity of executing every other process in his hands. He is to act, in each case, honestly and diligently, but with due regard to his duties to all litigants, and to the public. It is upon this principle that he is authorized to return ‘not found,’ if he go to the dwelling of the party and do not find him there. And these circumstances would -excuse the non-execution of the process, unless it should be made to appear that he had a reasonable opportunity of executing it on some other occasion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.