Skipper v. Schumacker’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2001
22 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 De la Montanya v. De la Montanya · Haile v. Gardner · Ex parte Amos · People ex rel. Stead v. Superior Court · Skipper v. State
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]very court, whether possessed of original or appellate jurisdiction, is vested with inherent power to vacate its own orders, judgments, or decrees, if void, and indeed, every such court is in duty bound to do so when appropriate procedure is invoked for that purpose.”
2 later decisions 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.