Jones v. Bass’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 1987
19 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 Coleman v. Zapp · Quinn v. Halbrook · Williams v. Steele · Nevitt v. Wilson · Hunt v. O'Brien
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Court of Civil Appeals erred in its conclusion that it was without jurisdiction to set aside the void order of December 14, 1929. ‘It is true,’ says Judge Brown, in Williams v. Steele, 101 Tex. 382 , 108 S.W. 155, 157 , ‘that, when the court in which a judgment has been rendered has not jurisdiction, the appellate court has not power to do that which the trial court could not do; but it has authority and jurisdiction over the void proceedings to declare their invalidity and set them aside’ — citing Roy v. Whitaker (Tex. Civ. App.) 50 S.W. 491 , 498; Gray v. Maddox, 5 Tex. 528 ; Aycock v. Williams, 18 Tex. 395 . To the same effect is the decision in Leslie v. Griffin (Tex. Com. App.) 25 S.W. 2d 820 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fulton v. Finch
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.