McCormick v. McCormick’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 2 district · 41 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Any judgment or decree of divorce rendered upon service by publication in any state of the United States in conformity with the law thereof shall be given full faith and credit in this state, and shall have the same force with regard to persons now or heretofore resident or hereafter to become a resident of this state as if said judgment had been rendered by a court of this state, and shall, as to the status of all persons, be treated and considered and given force the same as a judgment of the courts of this state of the date which said judgment bears.” (Laws of 1907, Ch. 184, § 1.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. King v. King

2. ““When jurisdiction has attached, the fraud of a party in procuring an irregular exercise of jurisdiction does not destroy jurisdiction, and nothing but want of jurisdiction is available on collateral attack.” (p. 39.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Morrissey v. Rodgers

3. ““A judgment procured by false or perjured testimony is not open even to a direct attack on that ground, when the testimony relates to an issue raised by the pleadings and tried out at the hearing.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Littlefield v. Paynter