White v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
May 1986
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Trabits v. First National Bank of Mobile · Callen v. Callen · Orkin Exterminating Co. of North Ala. v. Krawcheck · Talton v. Dickinson · Metzger Bros. v. Royal Indemnity 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The proper test of the sufficiency of a complaint in a declaratory judgment proceeding is whether there is a bona fide justiciable controversy which should or ought to be settled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.