Snell v. Knowles’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2006 · most notably 159 W. Va. 179 - Stevens v. Saunders (1975), 143 Cal. App. 2d 430 - Daniels v. Daniels (1956)
2 federal appellate · 23 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 Crawford v. McDonald · Trammell v. Rosen · Levy v. Roper · Clayton v. Hurt · Teagarden v. R. B. Godley Lumber Co.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... The test of finality of a judgment is not controlled by its correctness, but by its character in completeness of disposition of the parties and subject-matter before the court. 3 T.J. 113, § 55."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Where the clerk of the court is charged with the issuance of process, process can be said to be issued only where it is sent forth from the clerk's office under his sanction and authority and delivered to an officer or to someone else . . . in order that it may be served. Indeed, it is said to be the prevailing rule that the issuance of a summons is not complete until it is prepared by the clerk and delivered to the officer or person authorized to serve it, with the intention of having it served."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Though the statute only expressly provides that the residence of the defendant shall be ‘unknown to affiant’, it is thought that a plaintiff may not avoid the purpose and spirit of the statute by procuring his agent or attorney to malee affidavit of his want of knowledge of the residence of the defendant, when such residence is known to the plaintiff. The plaintiff may not thus fraudulently procure constructive service. Liebhart v. Lawrence, 40 Utah 243 , 120 P. 215 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robinson v. Rockett
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.