Elwess v. Elwess’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently June 2004 · most notably Kelly Inn No. 102, Inc. v. Kapnison (1992), Marchman v. NCNB Texas National Bank (1995)
38 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 Fullen v. Fullen · State v. Patten · State Corporation Com'n v. Mountain States Tel. & Tel. Co. · In Re Field's Estate · Davidson v. Enfield
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The word `jurisdiction' is a term of large and comprehensive import. It includes jurisdiction over the subject matter, over the parties, and power or authority to decide the particular matters presented.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We quote from Elwess v. Elwess, supra: “McCuistion v. McCuistion, 73 N.M. 27 , 385 P.2d 357 , was an appeal from a judgment awarding attorneys’ fees in a' divorce action, the judgment coming •down after the parties to the action had become reconciled and made a voluntary ■dismissal of their pending divorce action by stipulation. In that case we said: ‘The voluntary dismissal of a suit leaves a situation, * * * the same as though the suit had never been brought; * * * all prior proceedings and orders in the case are vitiated and annulled, and jurisdiction of the court is immediately terminated. ‘After voluntary dismissal, the court was without further jurisdiction and had no right to render any judgment. The case was moot and the parties were out of court for every purpose.”
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.