Corbett v. Corbett’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Godley v. County of Pitt (1982), Scott Poultry Company v. Bryan Oil Company (1967)
27 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 Burgess v. Trevathan · Ballard v. Ballard · Gaither Corporation v. Skinner · First-Citizens Bank & Trust Co. v. Parker · Buchanan v. . Clark
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . 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. . .”
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.