Wilkerson v. Goss’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 608 So. 2d 1149 - Flight Line, Inc. v. Tanksley · 832 So. 2d 474 - Mississippi Power & Light Co. v. Cook · 469 So. 2d 55 - Southern Farm Bureau Cas. Ins. v. Holland · Miller v. McRae's, Inc. · 484 So. 2d 1001 - McCain v. Northwestern Nat. Ins. Co.
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If venue in a civil action against a nonresident defendant cannot be asserted under paragraph (a) of subsection (1) [civil actions of which the circuit court has original jurisdiction], a civil action against a nonresident may be commenced in the county where the plaintiff resides or is domiciled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he plaintiff selects among the permissible venues, and his choice must be sustained unless in the end there is no credible evidence supporting the factual basis for the claim of venue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“we find that the allegations [of Goss] would not support a finding of venue in [Smith County] even if properly supported by cognizable, credible evidence.”
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.