Rael v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2018
2 federal appellate · 14 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 Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Shaffer v. Heitner · Mennonite Board of Missions v. Adams · American Land Co. v. Zeiss · Follette v. Pacific Light & Power Corp.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[When notice is a person's due, process which is a mere gesture is not due process. The means employed must be such as one desirous of actually informing the absentee might reasonably adopt to accomplish it. The reasonableness and hence the constitutional validity of any chosen method may be defended on the ground that it is in itself reasonably certain to inform those affected, or, where conditions do not reasonably permit such notice, that the form chosen is not substantially less likely to bring home notice than other of the feasi-bie and customary substitutes. It would be idle to pretend that publication alone as prescribed here, is a reliable means of acquainting interested parties of the fact that their rights are before the courts. It is not an accident that the greater number of cases réaching this Court on the question of adequacy of notice have been concerned with actions founded on process constructively served through local newspapers. Chance alone brings to the attention of even a local resident an advertisement in small type inserted in the back pages of 'a newspaper, and if he makes his home outside the area of the newspaper's normal cireulation the odds that the information will never reach him are large indeed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Owens v. Tergeson“it is declared to be the policy in this state that ... laws concerning or affecting title to real property ... shall be liberally construed with the end in view of rendering such titles absolute and free from technical defects so that subsequent purchasers ... may rely on the record title.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lobato v. Taylor“ascertain the identities of otherwise 'unknown' claimants, that is, claimants whose names or interests do not appear in the record chain of title and who are not in possession of the land.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lobato v. Taylor
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.