Brumbaugh v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate · 7 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Where a court has jurisdiction of the subject matter of an action and of the parties, a petition which alleges sufficient facts to challenge the attention of the court as to its merits, and to authorize the court to deliberate and act, is sufficient to sustain a judgment rendered in the action upon evidence, as against a collateral attack on the ground that the judgment is void; and this although the petition may have been demurrable on the ground that it did not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Pattison v. Kansas State Bank

2. ““The expiration of the time' for bringing an action is a matter of defense. Only explicit allegations which show, not inferentially but directly, that the statutory time has run render a petition demurrable. Otherwise the question must "be raised by a special plea.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Atwood Mercantile Co. v. Rooney