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54 Cal. App. 4th 684 - Carlson v. Eassa’s Empirical Analysis

1997

Citation profile

34
cited by 34 later decisions
1
states following
December 2018
most recently cited

34 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 71 Cal. App. 4th 901 - Kyle v. Carmon (1999), 155 Cal. App. 4th 525 - Thompson Pacific Construction Inc. v. City of Sunnyvale (2007)

34 state decisions

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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

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1738B

Relies on Abelleira v. District Court of Appeal · 6 Cal. 4th 644 - Lakin v. Watkins Associated Industries · 10 Cal. 3d 351 - Rooney v. Vermont Investment Corp. · 27 Cal. 3d 489 - Becker v. S.P v. Construction Co. · Armstrong v. Armstrong

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

  1. “A judgment is void if the court rendering it lacked subject matter jurisdiction or jurisdiction over the parties. Subject matter jurisdiction `relates to the inherent authority of the court involved to deal with the case or matter before it.' [Citation.] Lack of jurisdiction in this `fundamental or strict sense means an entire absence of power to hear or determine the case, an absence of authority over the subject matter or the parties.' [Citation.] [¶] In a broader sense, lack of jurisdiction also exists when a court grants `relief which [it] has no power to grant.' [Citations.] Where, for instance, the court has no power to act `except in a particular manner, or to give certain kinds of relief, or to act without the occurrence of certain procedural prerequisites,' the court acts without jurisdiction in this broader sense. [Citation.]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “'... [H]owever, an exception to this general rule applies when the underlying judgment is void. In such a case, the order denying the motion to vacate is itself void and appealable because it gives effect to a void judgment.' [Citation.]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.