Vonsmith v. Vonsmith’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Barney v. Suggs (1985), Ozark Mountain Timber Products, Inc. v. Redus (1987)
39 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 Gelston v. Hoyt · Glenn H. McCarthy, Inc. v. Southern Underwriters · Clader v. City of Neosho · Blackmore v. Blackmore · 238 Mo. App. 999 - Glader v. City of Neosho
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the very theory and constitution of a Court of appellate jurisdiction ... is the correction of errors which a Court below may have committed; and a Court below cannot be said to have committed an error when their judgment was never called into exercise, and the point of law was never taken into consideration, but was abandoned, by the acquiescence or default of the party who raised it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““We hold that a default judgment is not appealable in the absence of a motion to set aside or vacate.””
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.