Scoufos v. Fuller’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Chamberlin v. Chamberlin (1986), Mayhue v. Mayhue (1985)
42 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 Pettis v. Johnston · In Re Nitey's Estate · Crowther v. Schoonover · State Ex Rel. Commissioners of Land Office v. Keller · Fish v. Deaver
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]his Court has held in numerous cases that in order for a judgment to be void as provided in the Statute just quoted, it must be void on the face of the record, and that extrinsic evidence is not admissible to show judgment is void on the face of the record.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“" * * *Proceedings to vacate or modify a judgment, decree or order, ... for the causes mentioned in paragraphs 3 and 6 of Section 1031 of this title, shall be within three (3) years .... A void judgment, decree or order may be vacated at any time, on motion of a party, or any person affected thereby." (Emphasis supplied.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The divorce decree severs the marital relation and requires a personal decision.”
2 later decisions 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.