Green v. Bolen’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Field v. GREGORY · Mock Ex Rel. Estate of Mock v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad · Ford v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. · Padgett v. Colonial Wholesale Distributing Co. · Peagler v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The issues upon which the trial Judge is required to instruct are only those which are raised by the pleadings and the evidence. There was no duty on the trial Judge to instruct the jury as requested by the appellant because such charge was not applicable to any issue in this case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ellison v. Simmons
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.