Slatton v. Slatton’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2018
9 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 Simon v. Strock · Jeffords v. Hall · Schroder v. Antipas · Midland Timber Co. v. Prettyman
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A necessary party is one whose rights must be ascertained and settled before the rights of the parties to the action can be determined.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“After the trial of this action, S.C.Code Ann. § 15-5-200 (1976) was repealed by Act. [sic] No. 100 of 1985. See Rule 19, SCRCP.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to offer evidence to protect her property interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stoney v. Stoney
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.