Starnes v. . Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 2017
13 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.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a judgment rendered by a domestic court of general or superior jurisdiction is attacked in a collateral proceeding, there is a presumption, which can only be overcome by positive proof, that it had jurisdiction both of the persons and the subject-matter, and proceeded in the due exercise of its jurisdiction .... Presumptions against the validity of the proceedings will not be indulged in, where the record does not affirmatively show any error or irregularity. ... As jurisdiction is presumed, at least prima facie , any acts or omissions affecting the validity of the proceedings and judgment must be affirmatively shown[.]”
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.