Lowman v. Merrick’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State of New Hampshire v. State of Maine · Allen v. Commercial National Bank in Shreveport · 6 N.J. Super. 456 - Stretch v. Watson · Stretch v. Watson · Pendley v. City of Plaquemine
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No principle of law has received greater and more frequent sanction, or is more deeply imbedded in our jurisprudence, than that which forbids a collateral attack on a judgment or order of a competent tribunal, not void on its face ab ignition (sic).”
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.