Meriwether v. Wood

How courts have described this case

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

• “Lack of jurisdiction may be raised for the first time in this court, and may be taken notice of by this court on its own motion.”
• “A decree entered in a pending suit in which the court lacks jurisdiction of the subject-matter is to that extent void-”
• “Lack of jurisdiction may be raised for the first time in this court, ... and may be taken notice of by this court on its own motion.”(intemal quotations and citations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).