MacDougall v. Levick’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Maynard v. Hill · Remon Lee v. Mike Kemna Superintendent Crossroads Correctional Center · Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. Superior Court of Cal., San Francisco Cty. · 49 Cal. 2d 210 - Spellens v. Spellens · Prillaman v. Commonwealth
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A legal transaction deemed void ab initio can be challenged by any person, in virtually any proceeding, for any reason precisely because the transaction, in the eyes of the law, does not exist.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Meuse v. Henry
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.