Marshall v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 2006 · most notably Castro v. Viera (1988), Broaca v. Broaca (1980)
37 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 Clover v. Urban · Chzrislonk v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · O'Leary v. Waterbury Title Co. · Wheeler v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A court is without power to render a judgment if it lacks jurisdiction of the parties or of the subject matter, one or both. In such cases, the judgment is void, has no authority and may be impeached.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[E]verything done under the judicial process of courts not having jurisdiction, is, ipso facto, void.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“cannot make a decision in favor of either party. It can only dismiss the case for want of 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.