Rudisill v. Hoyle’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2003
22 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 Holland v. . Smith · Veazey v. City of Durham · Taylor v. . Taylor · Smith Ex Rel. Smith v. Mears · Solon Lodge No. 9 Knights of Pythias Co. v. Ionic Lodge Free Ancient & Accepted Masons No. 72 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Consequently, under the facts disclosed on this record and in view of the character of the relief sought, it is proper but not mandatory that the administrator d.b.n. shall bring the action, but it is necessary for him to be a party to the action, either as the plaintiff or as a party defendant, in order to prevent a dismissal thereof . . . The better, and more orderly, procedure is for the next of kin to bring such action only after the administrator d.b.n. has refused to do so. However, we are not advertent to any case, and the appellant cited none, where this Court had dismissed an action of this character brought by the next of kin, for lack of necessary parties, where the administrator d.b.n. was named a party defendant ... In the present action, if the relief sought is obtained, the assets of the estate of Bruce Snipes, deceased, will not be recovered by these plaintiffs directly, but said assets will belong to J. M. Wells, Jr., administrator d.b.n. of said estate and administered by him as provided by law, and the plaintiffs will receive from said administrator their distributive share of said estate.” (Italics ours).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Spivey v. Godfrey
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.