Lothstein v. Fitzpatrick’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 1986
2 district · 7 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 United States v. Throckmorton · White v. Ladd · Deering v. Quivey · Wills v. Nehalem Coal Co. · State v. O'Day
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A judgment or decree that is absolutely void is a mere nullity and may be vacated by the court at any time, whether before or after the expiration of the term during which it was rendered. [numerous citations]” Lothstein v. Fitzpatrick, 171 Or. 648, 658 , 138 P.2d 919, 923 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Daugharty v. Gladden
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.