Dellinger v. Bollinger’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently February 2010 · most notably City of Goldsboro v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co. (1957), Gardner v. Gardner (1980)
58 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 Lee v. . Board of Adjustment · Phipps v. . Vannoy · Four County Agricultural Credit Corp. v. Satterfield · In Re the Restraint of Cranford · Bond v. Bond
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]ecause the summons affects jurisdiction over the person rather than the subject matter, this Court has held that a general appearance by a civil defendant `waive[s] any defect in or nonexistence of a summons.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““Aside from our statutory provisions we are constrained to bold that the interest of a putative father in the welfare of his illegitimate offspring is sufficient to authorize him to maintain a proceeding under the provisions of (W. 0.) G. S. § 50-13 to have the child removed from environment detrimental to its welfare. In so doing, he may request the court to award the custody of the child to him so that he may provide the support and maintenance required by law.” (at p. 594 of 89 S. E. 2d)”
1 later decision 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.