Gulledge v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2004
12 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 Allen v. SOUTHERN RY. CO. · State v. Southern Railway · Allen v. Atlanta & Charlotte Air Line Ry. Co. · Langford v. State Board of Fisheries · Moore v. Southern Coatings & Chemical Co.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule in this State is that a plaintiff is entitled to a voluntary nonsuit without prejudice as a matter of right unless there is a showing of legal prejudice to the defendants. The [hearing] Judge has no discretion with respect to the granting of such a motion unless and until legal prejudice is shown. In that event, the matter becomes one of discretion for the [hearing] Judge.”
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.