McLaughlin v. Gholson’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably 29 Va. App. 673 - Anderson v. Anderson (1999), LOFTON RIDGE v. Norfolk Southern Ry. Co. (2004)
40 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 Harris v. Diamond Construction Co. · Rohanna v. Vazzana · Story v. Norfolk-Portsmouth Newspapers, Inc. · Dooley v. Commonwealth · Parker v. DeBose
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“change his position to the prejudice of his adversaries in contravention of [a] stipulation freely entered into.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] litigant cannot assume positions which are inconsistent with each other and mutually contradictory.”
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.