Broyhill v. Dawson’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 1998
10 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 Windsor v. McVeigh · Ferguson v. . Crawford · Morrill v. Morrill · Continental Gin Co. v. De Bord · Anthony v. Kasey
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A thing that is null and void has no legal existence. It is lifeless. Life cannot be infused into it — being cannot be given to it — by a court order or judgment. The weakness of the [majority’s reasoning] . . . comes of the fact that [they] fail[] to distinguish between a void judgment and a voidable one.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kelley v. Kelley““[T]he record is never conclusive as to the recital of a jurisdictional fact, and the defendant is always at liberty to show a want of jurisdiction, although the record avers the contrary. If the court had no jurisdiction, it had no power to make a record, and the supposed record is not in truth a record.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“said through the eminent Judge Burks: “It is conceded by all the authorities that if a judgment is void, it may be assailed anywhere, at any time, in any way, by anybody. It is immaterial whether the assault be direct or collateral. It is a nullity and may be treated as such.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kelley v. Kelley
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.