Vaughan v. Vaughan’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2015
2 district · 14 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 Mentone Hotel & Realty Co. v. Taylor · Murrey v. Specialty Underwriters, Inc. · Weyman v. City of Atlanta · Nottingham v. Elliott · Wade v. Ray
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A motion to dismiss should not be granted unless it appears to a certainty that the plaintiff would be entitled to no relief under any state of facts which could be proved in support of his claim. [Cit.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The general rule is that in order for a plaintiff to maintain an equitable petition to remove a cloud upon his title, he must allege and prove actual possession in himself. [Cits.] The reason of this rule is that where the defendant is in possession the plaintiff has a remedy to test his title at law by bringing an action in ejectment, which is ordinarily deemed an adequate remedy, and in consequence there is no ground for the exercise of equitable jurisdiction, which is based upon the fact that where the plaintiff is in possession he can maintain no action at law to test his title.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Newcomer v. Newcomer“for which they sought nominal damages. The only enumeration of error is that the trial court erred in granting appellee's motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim.”
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.