Picquet v. Swan

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[I]ndependent of some positive provision to the contrary, no judgment could be rendered in the circuit court against any person, upon whom process could not be personally served within the district.” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

45 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Burnham v. Superior Court of Cal., County of Marin
  Supreme Court· 1990-05-29· cited 683×
• Georgia v. Pennsylvania Railroad
  Supreme Court· 1945-03-26· cited 482×
• Robertson v. Railroad Labor Board
  Supreme Court· 1925-06-08· cited 184×
• Mallory v. Norfolk Southern R. Co
  Supreme Court· 2023-06-27· cited 102×
• Tyler v. Judges of Court of Registration
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1900-01-03· cited 97×
• City of Salem v. Eastern Railroad
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1868-01-15· cited 77×
• Gater Assets Ltd. v. AO Moldovagaz
  Second Circuit· 2021-06-22· cited 38×
• Fuld v. Palestine Liberation Organization
  Supreme Court· 2025-06-20· cited 31×
• Douglass v. Nippon Yusen Kabushiki
  Fifth Circuit· 2022-08-16· cited 30×
• Cella Commission Co. v. Bohlinger
  Eighth Circuit· 1906-07-16· cited 21×
• Oxley v. Sweetland
  Fourth Circuit· 1938-01-04· cited 20×
• Terre Haute Brewing Co. v. McGeever
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1916-11-16· cited 20×
• Harding v. Standard Oil Co.
  U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illnois· 1910-10-25· cited 20×
• Lovejoy v. Albee
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1851-07-01· cited 17×
• Darryl Lewis v. Kalev Mutond
  D.C. Circuit· 2023-03-17· cited 17×
• Kaeppler v. James H. Matthews & Company
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1960-02-03· cited 15×
• Motoshaver, Inc. v. Schick Dry Shaver, Inc.
  Ninth Circuit· 1938-12-02· cited 14×
• Wallace v. United Electric Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1905-04-17· cited 14×
• James v. Townsend
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1870-03-15· cited 12×
• Brand v. Brand
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1903-11-18· cited 11×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bissell v. Briggs
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1813-03-15· cited 137×
• Tingley v. Bateman
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1813-10-15· cited 47×
• Lawrence v. Smith
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1809-09-15· cited 23×
• Gardner v. Barker
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1815-03-15· cited 13×
• Smith v. I. Brush
  New York Supreme Court· 1811-05-15· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Moore
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1812-10-15· cited 9×