Cotton v. Hearon’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
October 1970
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mulkin v. McDONOUGH CONSTRUCTION COMPANY OF GA. · Stidham v. Stidham
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.
““ * * * Only adverse rulings of the trial court are subject to an assignment of error and reviewable on appeal. * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dempsey
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.