Bailey v. Vaughn’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 2002
7 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 Smith v. Stansel · Dailey v. Houston · Shorter v. Lesser · Stern v. Great Southern Land Co. · Carter v. Ford
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must show conclusively that an equal division cannot be made, or that a sale would be more beneficial, or less injurious, than an actual division”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We went on this property and personally inspected it by walking over the entire 170 acres of land and found that the acreage South of the road, being approximately 60 acres, is cut over, [and] that the acreage North of the road is mostly Hardwood of poor grade interspersed with pine, with better grade pine located in approximately 20 acres in the Northeastern most part of this property... . It is our better judgment that this land is not susceptible to partition in kind.”
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.