Beardslee v. . Dolge’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 1974
16 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 In Re the Probate of the Will of Walker · Amy v. The Supervisors · Rehberg v. . Mayor, Etc., of City of New York · Hover v. Barkhoof · Scott v. Detroit Young Men's Society's Lessee
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The official determination of the defendant as to the fact upon which his power to act depended is not conclusive, and if the fact does not exist, his decision that it did does not establish jurisdiction. . . . Where there is a want of authority, to hear and determine the subject matter of the controversy, an adjudication upon the merits is a nullity, and does not estop even an assenting party. . . . The present action is in the nature of a collateral attack upon the proceedings of the defendant as highway commissioner for want of jurisdiction. Such an attack can be made upon any judgment where there is no jurisdiction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.