Calhoun v. Cracknell’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 1956
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 21 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 Glover v. Reid · Dudley v. Gates · Campau v. Campau · Byrne v. Hume · Stevens v. Hope
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court having jurisdiction to distribute the estate and to construe the will for the purpose, the failure to appoint a guardian ad litem for a minor could be no more than an irregularity of procedure. It is fundamental that an irregularity, not jurisdictional, even though sufficient to require the vacation of a judgment on direct attack, does not affect its force when questioned in another proceeding. If the appointment were necessary, the judgment would be, not void, but merely voidable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The probate court is obviously called upon to construe a will dealing with real as well as personal estate. Under the statute cited the probate court is invested with power and at the time of the distribution of the estate, has jurisdiction to construe a will and make disposition accordingly.””
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.