Cockerham v. Zikratch’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Webb v. Erickson (1982), United Imports & Exports, Inc. v. Superior Court (1982)
60 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 McGee v. International Life Insurance · Milliken v. Meyer · Klapprott v. United States · Tony and Susan Alamo Foundation v. Secretary of Labor · Bunn v. North Carolina
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Defendants] claim only that failure to comply with a technicality prevented establishment of personal jurisdiction over them in the trial court. We hold that the failure to file the affidavit of service required by Rule 4(e)(2)(b), although reversible error, did not render the default judgment void for lack of personal jurisdiction where the facts to be contained in that affidavit appear in the verified complaint and affidavits of the process server.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Creach v. Angulo · Creach v. Angulo““... appellate courts sometimes fail to realize that the exact meaning of their language, reaching a correct result when limited in its effect to the precise case before them, leads to an improper conclusion when applied to another and entirely different state of affairs. There are many cases in the reports where courts have used the word ‘void,’ where a close analysis of the facts shows that ‘voidable’ is what is really meant, and there have been instances where appellate tribunals have used the word ‘jurisdiction’ when, in reality, they meant, not the power to perform a certain act, but the performing of it when it was prohibited, a very different thing.” (Emphasis in original). 48 Ariz. at 392-93 , 62 P.2d at 137 ; accord, Cockerham v. Zikratch, 127 Ariz. 230 , 619 P.2d 739 (1980); see Arizona Public Service Co. v. Southern Union Gas Co., supra.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Void judgments are those rendered by a court which lacked jurisdiction, either of the subject matter or the parties____ Erroneous judgments are those which have been issued by a court with jurisdiction but which are subject to reversal on timely direct appeal.” (Citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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