Dix v. Dix’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2013
8 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 Johnson v. Carroll · Wides v. Wides · Calhoun v. Bryant · Covington Trust Co. of Covington v. Owens · Reiche v. Williams
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.
““The sole question is whether or not the portion of the judgment in question is void or voidable. The generally accepted rule is. that where the court has jurisdiction of parties and subject matter, the judgment, if erroneous, is voidable, not void. There is no contention that the court did not have jurisdiction of the parties, and since the subject matter was divorce and incidental alimony, the court had jurisdiction in that respect, and if the court misapplied the-statute it was an error to be questioned on timely appeal. Judicial error must be corrected seasonably.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. West
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.