Dishmon v. Shelby State Community College

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that subject matter jurisdiction “does not depend on the conduct or agreement of the parties, and thus the parties cannot confer subject matter jurisdiction on a trial or an appellate court by appearance, plea, consent, silence, or waiver”
• “[T]he parties cannot confer subject matter jurisdiction on a trial or an appellate court by appearance, plea, consent, silence, or waiver.”
• “Parties cannot confer subject matter jurisdiction on a trial or an appellate court by appearance, plea, consent, silence, or waiver.”
• “Judgments or orders entered by courts without subject matter jurisdiction are void . . . .”
• “Among the issues most commonly considered by appellate courts on their own motion is the trial court’s subject matter jurisdiction.”
• “[W]hen an appellate court determines that a trial court lacked subject matter jurisdiction, it must vacate the judgment and dismiss the case without reaching the merits of the appeal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).