Griffith v. Goodin’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 2007
11 state decisions
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 Gulf & S. I. R. v. Kelly
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Attention is directed to the fact that this suit before us now is really on a quantum meruit basis, since it concludes with the statement “reasonable value.” It is not an open account, — and certainly not such open account as is comtemplat-ed by Section 1754, Code 1942, which entitles a plaintiff to judgment unless the defendant makes affidavit and files with his plea that the account is not correct, particularizing wherein it is not correct. So, the action was at issue without any counter affidavit by the appellant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Section 1754, Code 1942, is a rule of evidence and “not one of pleading and practice, and did not preclude the defendant from making any and all defenses,” as further stated in the opinion in Gulf & S. I. R. Co. v. Kelly, 131 Miss. 133 , 95 So. 131, 132 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.