Averett v. Averett’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 1968
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 Hodge v. Joy · Peters Mineral Land Co. v. Hooper · Harton v. Little · Van Ingin v. Duffin · Lamar v. Rivers
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Treating the bill as one seeking relief upon the ground of fraud, these averments bring complainants within the one year limitation after discovery of the fraud. Code of 1940, Title 7, § 42. Parties so demeaning themselves as to keep those far from the scene of action, in the dark cannot set up lack of diligence, such as non-examination of records disclosing respondents’ claim of title derived as here alleged.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Where full and complete relief may be had between parties before the court, third persons who have had a hand in bringing about the equities involved, but against whom no relief is sought, are not necessary parties, if respondents are not prejudiced by their absence. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Farmer v. Riddle
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.