Larimer v. Knoyle’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions

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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We do not think that she could treat the judgment as an absolute nullity, and void in a collateral proceeding, merely because of the falsity of the petition and the two affidavits. “ ‘A divorce granted by the court of the domicile of both parties is valid everywhere under the constitution of the United States, and under the principles of international law, although the defendant has neither been summoned nor voluntarily appeared, provided that the laws of the parties’ domicile as to notice by publication or otherwise have been complied with.’ . . . ‘Want of jurisdiction in the court passing it is the only cause which renders a decree of divorce absolutely void; fraud does not, nor does irregularity.’ ” (Pages 349, 350.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. McCormick v. McCormick

2. ““It is well settled in this state that a judgment rendered without jurisdiction is void, absolutely and entirely, and may be shown to be-void in a collateral as well as in a direct proceeding, and by extrinsic evidence as well as by the record itself.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jefferson v. Gallagher