Cullen v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2021 · most notably Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois (1956), 113 Ill. 2d 294 - State Bank of Lake Zurich v. Thill (1986)
26 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 Parsons v. Weis · Osgood v. Blackmore · Rabbitt v. Frank C. Weber & Co. · Payson v. People ex rel. Parsons · Clark v. Thompson
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[i]n the case of a collateral attack on a judgment, all presumptions are in favor of the validity of the judgment attacked, and want of jurisdiction must appear on the face of the record.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.