State v. Doherty

How courts have described this case

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

• where court lacked jurisdiction over criminal proceeding at time it acted, act is nullity; subsequent statute conferring jurisdiction does not cure defect
• “‘[D]ue process of law’ and ‘law of the land’ have the same meaning.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State ex rel. English v. Ruback
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1938-10-07· cited 39×
• State v. Dumont
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1986-03-27· cited 25×
• NECEC Transmission LLC v. Bureau of Parks and Lands
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2022-08-30· cited 20×
• Larkin v. Saffarans
  W.D. Tennessee· 1883-02-20· cited 20×
• Newell v. State
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1971-06-01· cited 14×
• State v. Dowd
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1984-06-04· cited 14×
• Reis v. Lawrence
  California Supreme Court· 1883-02-12· cited 5×
• State v. Emery
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1969-07-25· cited 1×
• Robert E. Dupuis v. Roman Catholic Bishop of Portland
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2025-01-28· cited 1×
• State of Maine v. Thomas G. Coffill III
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2026-02-26