Jenkins v. Steele’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 1963
24 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 Whisler v. Whisler · Brown v. Brown · Bozeman v. Cale · Gourley v. Embree · Burke v. State
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Rule 6 of this court provides that the assignment of errors shall contain the full names of all the parties, and it has been uniformly held that a failure to set out the full name- of all the parties to the judgment appealed from renders the assignment of errors defective and unavailing. The assignment of errors in this court constitutes the appellant’s complaint, and the court only acquires jurisdiction over the parties whose names appear therein. The merits of the appeal cannot be determined where the party in whose favor the judgment was rendered is not before the court, and in such case it is the duty of the court to dismiss the appeal upon its own motion. . . . when a case is brought to an appellate tribunal, the first duty devolving on the court is to determine its own jurisdiction. If the assignment fails to present error relating to the judgment shown by the transcript, the court acquires no jurisdiction to decide any question except that relating to its own jurisdiction. The assignment of errors must be made by the identical party or parties against whom the alleged erroneous judgment was rendered and against the party or parties in whose favor such judgment was rendered. If the judgment below is against one person and the error is assigned by another and different person, the court acquires no jurisdiction over the .person against whom the judgment was rendered, and it becomes the duty of the court to dismiss the appeal whenever such want of jurisdiction is brought”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““In considering the sufficiency of an assignment of errors all ambiguities or uncertainties therein will be considered against the pleading. The court can not indulge any presumptions and thereby supply what the appellant by his pleading may have possibly or probably intended.””
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.