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Void vs. voidable judgment

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 12 U.S. 9 - Griffith v. Frazier · 1814Most cited · 52 citing opinions

jurisdictional defect

The well known distinction between an erroneous act or judgment by a tribunal having cognizance of the subject matter, and the act or judgment of a tribunal having no cognizance of the subject, is not denied.

How often courts cite the case defining “Void vs. voidable judgment”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “Void vs. voidable judgment” — 52 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.