Broaca v. Broaca’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
127 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Gallo v. Gallo (1981), Amodio v. Amodio (1999)
127 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. Euge · Monroe v. Monroe · Kenworthy v. Kenworthy · Bunche v. Bunche · Chrysler Credit Corporation v. Fairfield Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc.
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a court has never acquired jurisdiction over a defendant or the subject matter . . . any judgment ultimately entered is void and subject to vacation or collateral attack.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“void ab initio and is subject to both direct and collateral attack.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[u]nless otherwise provided by law and except in such cases in which the court has continuing jurisdiction”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.