Goodson v. Carlson’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
July 2019
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Munster v. Groce · Marriage of Bays v. Bays · Shane v. Home Depot USA, Inc. · Morrison v. Professional Billing Services, Inc.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Accordingly, in order for constructive service 'to be constitutionally effective there must be a showing by the plaintiff or party who sought such service that due diligence to ascertain the defendant's current whereabouts was exercised and service' through publication was reasonable under the cireumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grabowski v. Waters“'the Due Process Clause requires that in order for constructive notice of a lawsuit to be sufficient, a party must exercise due diligence in attempting to locate a litigant's whereabouts.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grabowski v. Waters
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.