Sudderth v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently May 2011
1 federal appellate · 2 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 Williams v. Harris · Ferris v. Van Ingen & Co. · McSwain v. Ricketson · Walden v. Walden · City of Abbeville v. Jay
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“vests in them as tenants in common and the interest of minors is not terminated by their attainment of majority. But throughout the lifetime of the [surviving spouse] a joint award remains subject to the right of the [surviving spouse] to sell or encumber for [the surviving spouse’s] support or that of remaining minors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. CABREL v. Lum
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.