Sullivan v. Arbuthnot’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The record shows that the suit was instituted in the county where the cause of action accrued. Therefore, the court had jurisdiction. That part of the statute which provides: .‘If brought in any county or justice district where the defendant does not reside, the plaintiff, or some person in his behalf, shall make and file with the praecipe or bill in chancery, an affidavit that the suit is brought in good faith, and with no intention to annoy the defendant’, is directory and not jurisdictional. It was entirely proper for the Court to require the plaintiff to file affidavit of good faith or else suffer the cause to be dismissed, but when he filed the affidavit of good faith as required by the statute before the defendant was required to plead that constituted a substantial compliance with the. statute.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 103 So. 2d 656 - Peterson v. Kirk