Mastin v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 1956 · most notably Title Guaranty & Surety Co. v. Foster (1921), Ewing v. Mallison (1902)
1 federal appellate · 32 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 Thompson v. Whitman · Galpin v. Page · Charles Williamson and Catharine His Wife v. Joseph Berry · Elliott v. Lessee of Peirsol · Earle v. McVeigh
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A judgment rendered with jurisdiction can never be impeached in a collateral proceeding; but a judgment rendered without jurisdiction may. In fact, a judgment rendered without jurisdiction is no judgment at all.” (Mastin v. Gray, 19 Kan. 458, 466 .)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Proceedings instituted for the purpose of destroying, impairing, or modifying the force or effect of a judgment for all cases, such as proceedings to reverse, vacate, set aside, declare void, suspend, modify, or perpetually enjoin a judgment, are direct proceedings.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. James v. Young““A great majority of the courts hold that a judgment from another state may be impeached for want of jurisdiction collaterally as well as, directly, and by extrinsic evidence as well as by the record.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Earl v. Earl
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.