Ex Parte Watkins’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2015
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 Ex Parte Darnell · Nashville, C. & St. L. Ry. Co. v. Town of Boaz · 83 So. 2d 717 - Ex Parte Morris · Ex Parte Big Four Coal Mining Co. · Bracken v. Mullins
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A court's jurisdiction and power until invoked lie dormant, and if the court proceeds in a manner in which its jurisdiction has not been invoked ... the proceedings are without jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"The findings of fact by said Board, duly set forth in the transcript, if supported by substantial evidence adduced before said Board . . . shall be conclusive on any appeal."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.