Butler v. McKey’s Empirical Analysis
138 F.2d 373 · 1943
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 1972
2 federal appellate · 5 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 · Galpin v. Page · Thompson v. Thompson · Forbes v. Hyde · Ricketson v. Richardson
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The argument is not tenable that a perjury charge cannot be sustained against an affiant who sets forth hearsay matter as a fact. In a situation where no specific information has been imparted to him, if a man swears that he has received such information, and if he swears that because of such information, a defendant could not with due diligence be found or a defendant was concealing himself to avoid service, he subjects himself to liability for perjury, for he has corruptly made a positive statement. # * # 99”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is a basic rule that a judgment is void and subject to collateral attack if a lack of jurisdiction in the court appears on the face of the record.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. BOWEN v. Olson
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.