94 Cal. App. 2d 540 - Manuel v. Kiser’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 1970
12 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 Lestrade v. Barth · Prouty v. Devin · Pankey v. Ortiz · Stevens v. Kelley · People v. One 1941 Chrysler Sedan
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question thus narrows down to the more precise one of whether a decree entered in an action brought pursuant to section 749 of the Code of Civil Procedure against ‘unknown defendants’ based upon publication of summons directed to such defendants is binding upon a person claiming an interest in the land and as to whom the plaintiff has actual knowledge. “By the provisions of section 749 of the Code of Civil Procedure a defendant known to the plaintiff must be served in the manner set forth in sections 405-418 thereof which sections in general require personal service subject to certain exceptions not applicable herein. Thus it would follow that Manuel was entitled to personal service by the very terms of the foregoing sections and such a conclusion is in accord with the general rule that a party in the actual possession of real property cannot be regarded as an ‘unknown’ person so as to be bound by a decree based upon published service. ( 146 A.L.R. 713 ; 128 A.L.R. 114 .)””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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