Ritchie v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 1961
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.
Relationships
Relies on Thompson v. Whitman · Borden v. Fitch · Hill v. Mendenhall · Pringle v. . Woolworth · Shickle v. Watts
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is now well settled by the weight of authority, and is undoubtedly the better rule, that want of jurisdiction may be shown by the defendant, even to the extent of contradicting express recitals in the record, the same as in cases of foreign judgments. They are not regarded in the sense of foreign judgments, so that the merits may be inquired into even where jurisdiction is had as in the case of judgments of the courts of other countries; nor yet in respect to jurisdictional matters are they to be regarded in the same light as judgments in our own courts of record;” citing many cases which modify the doctrine laid down in the case of Mills v. Duryee to that extent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.