Sult v. Gilbert’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Ass'n v. Cox Ex Rel. Cox (1968), Scott v. Kilpatrick (1970)
50 state decisions — followed in 10 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Levy v. Magnolia Lodge, No. 29, I. O. O. F. · Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias v. Taylor · Hanover Fire Insurance v. Hiers
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... The law is settled in this State that the courts will not take cognizance of a case arising from the expulsion of a member of a voluntary Association unless some civil or contractual right is involved.... ...... "... It was purely an internal affair of the Association and there is no showing of mistake, fraud, collusion or arbitrariness in the proceedings. ...... "The law is well settled that the constitution and by-laws of a voluntary Association when subscribed or assented to by the members becomes a contract between each member and the Association and if they so provide a member may be expelled for insubordination to the Association...." (at p. 35 of opinion.)”
4 later decisions 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.