Settle by and Through Sullivan v. Beasley’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Matter of Ballard (1984), State Ex Rel. Tucker v. Frinzi (1996)
63 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Commissioner v. Sunnen · King v. Grindstaff · Masters v. Dunstan · Tidwell v. Booker · Davenport v. . Patrick
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Privity is not established, however, from the mere fact that persons may happen to be interested in the same question or in proving or disproving the same state of facts, or because the question litigated was one which might affect such other person's liability as a judicial precedent in a subsequent action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the authority and the duty to pursue an action against the responsible parent for the maintenance of the child and recovery of amounts paid by the county for support of the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he courts will look beyond the nominal party whose name appears of record and consider the legal questions raised as they may affect the real party in interest.”
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.