Edmondson v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2010
20 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 Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States v. Basnight · Gaither Corporation v. Skinner · State v. Alston · Peel v. Moore · Garrett v. Rose
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In Gaither Corp. v. Skinner, 238 N.C. 254, 256 , 77 S.E. 2d 659 , the Court said, quoting from McIntosh, North Carolina Practice and Procedure, Sec. 209, p. 184: ‘Necessary or indispensable parties are those whose interests are such that no decree can be rendered which will not affect them, and therefore the court cannot proceed until they are brought in. Proper parties are those whose interests may be affected by a decree, but the court can proceed to adjudicate the rights of others without necessarily affecting them, and whether they shall be brought in or not is within the discretion of the Court.’ “In Assurance Society v. Basnight, 234 N.C. 347, 352 , 67 S.E. 2d 390 , it is said: ‘The term “necessary parties” embraces all persons who have or claim material interests in the subject matter of a controversy, which interests will be directly affected by an adjudication of the controversy. * * * A sound criterion for deciding whether particular persons must be joined in litigation between others appears in this definition: Necessary parties are those persons who have rights which must be ascertained and settled before the rights of the parties to the suit can be determined.’ “In Garrett v. Rose, 236 N.C. 299, 307 , 72 S.E. 2d 843 , it is said: ‘A person is a necessary party to an action when he is so vitally interested in the controversy involved in the action that a valid judgment cannot be rendered in the action completely and finally determining the controversy without his”
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.