Bailey v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Townsend v. Townsend (1996), Bardoon Properties, NV v. Eidolon Corp. (1997)
29 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 Duke Power Co. v. South Carolina Public Service Commission · Dockside Ass'n v. Detyens, Simmons & Carlisle
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A real party in interest ... is one who has a real, actual, material or substantial interest in the subject matter of the action, as distinguished from one who has only a nominal, formal, or technical interest in, or connection with, the action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A party has standing if the party has a personal stake in the subject matter of a lawsuit and is a 'real party in interest.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a real proprietary interest in the subject matter of the proceedings;”
2 later decisions 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.