Andrews v. Sheehy’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 1999 · most notably Tracy v. Dufrene (1960), Andrews v. Sheehy (1909)
27 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 Pennoyer v. Neff · John Haddock v. Harriet Haddock · Baker v. Jewell · In re Sheehy · 44 La. Ann. 383 - Hobson v. Peake
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a well-settled rule of jurisprudence, founded upon justice and common sense, that the absolute nullity of a judgment may be invoked before the tribunal where an attempt is made to enforce it, and by any person whose interests may be affected by the judgment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Key v. Jones
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.