Battle v. Mason’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 2014
9 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 In Re Blackfeather's Estate · Ferraro v. Taylor · State ex rel. Ruhlman v. Ruhlman · Johnson v. Shaver · McKey v. McKean
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not sufficient to confer jurisdiction upon either the county or district courts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Since the jurisdiction of the court was not invoked by the petition filed and could not have been invoked by any petition filed thereafter, the court was without jurisdiction to authorize either of said amendments and the same had no effect in law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moon v. Ellis“2. That some jurisdictional fact was wanting in the probate; or”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Daly v. Stephenson
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.