Baird v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Burtnett v. King (1949), Fehlhaber v. Fehlhaber (1982)
5 federal appellate · 61 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 Matter of the Estate Op Bernard NewMan · Gray v. Hall · People v. Greene · Tregambo v. Comanche Mill & Mining Co. · Christerson v. French
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“at most but an erroneous exercise of jurisdiction ... (and) not an absence of jurisdiction; ... (a) judgment entered by a court (not in conformity with § 585(b) ) is therefore merely voidable, and not void, and can only be attacked by appeal or motion made within six months thereafter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘The clerk derives all his powers from the statute, and as they are special, no intendments are to be made in support of his act, but in each case it must appear that what he did was within the authority conferred on him by the statute. ... ’ ””
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.