Pyeatt v. Estus’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 1983
20 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 Cooper v. Flesner · Schock v. Fish · Eaves v. Mullen · Wimberly v. Winstock · Clark v. Sayers
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The petition as well as the order of the court, is more oi less general and vague, tending to show a necessity for such sale, yet we have held that the petition was sufficient to giye (he court jurisdiction, and, after having obtained jurisdiction, the court should not be held to have lost jurisdiction, unless it clearly appears that it entered a decree not authorized under the facts and not warranted by law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burris v. Straughn“`It is well settled by the authorities that a judgment may be void for want of authority in a court to render the particular judgment rendered though the court may have had jurisdiction over the subject matter and the parties.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Matter of TRG
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.