Benjamin Harris v. William Hardeman’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 federal appellate · 4 district · 33 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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In reviewing the decision of the circuit court it should be borne in mind, as a rule to guide and control our examination, that the judgment impugned before that court was a judgment by default, and that in all judgments by default, whatever may affect their competency or regularity, every proceeding, indeed, from the writ and indorsements thereon down to the judgment itself, inclusive, is part of the record and is open to examination.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. First Nat. Bank of Marshall v. Alexander · Milner v. Gatlin

2. ““Unless a court has jurisdiction, it can never make a record which imports uncontrollable verity to the party over whom it has usurped jurisdiction, and he ought not, therefore, to be estopped from proving any fact which goes to establish the truth of a plea alleging the want of jurisdiction?’"'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. First Nat. Bank of Marshall v. Alexander · Milner v. Gatlin

3. “[A] judgment may be attacked in a collateral proceeding by showing that the court had no jurisdiction of the person, or, in proceedings in rem, no jurisdiction of the thing.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jackson v. Fie Corporation · Jackson