Suitor v. Suitor’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
22
cited by 22 later decisions
1
states following
January 1998
most recently cited
22 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lafko v. Lafko · Gerdel v. Gerdel · MacDermid v. MacDermid
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.
“[j]urisdiction over the subject matter of a suit cannot be conferred by agreement or consent of the parties when it is not given in law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.