Leon v. Numkena’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 2016
24 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 Hilton v. Guyot · Williams v. Lee · Will v. United States · 87 Wash. 2d 649 - In Re Adoption of Buehl · Porter v. Porter
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A court’s jurisdiction of the subject matter ... exists when a constitution or statute specifically confers upon the court such jurisdiction. Timmerman v. Timmerman, 163 Neb. 704 , 81 N.W.2d 135 (1957). This power is likewise conferred upon Indian courts by their constitutions or tribal codes. See generally Cohen, Federal Indian Law, p. 428 (1958).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Red Fox v. Hettich“Under the principle of 'comity,' courts of one jurisdiction will give effect to the laws and judicial decisions of another jurisdiction, not as a matter of obligation, but out of deference and mutual respect.” Leon v. Numkena, 142 Ariz. 307, 311 , 689 P.2d 566, 570 (App.1984). 4 . With the exception of child custody determinations that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Subject matter jurisdiction relates to the power of a court to hear and determine a general class of cases to which a particular proceeding belongs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Red Fox v. Hettich
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