Corrigan v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““An avoidance of this rule is attempted by getting an amended transcript from the justice which does show him to be a justice of the peace in the city of Kansas. This amended transcript does not show any mistake in the foregoing, but does show that the justice altered his docket after the rule served upon him, so as to make it show jurisdiction where, at the time the proceedings were had, it did not appear. We are of the opinion that this cannot be done. For jurisdiction in cases like this may be said not to depend on the fact, but on such fact appearing in the proceedings. If such fact does not appear, the proceedings are coram non judice.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Edwards v. Bates County