Ex Parte McGugin’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Sullivan v. Sullivan Timber Co. · Bolton v. White Motor Co. · General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. Home Loan & Finance Co. · 352 So. 2d 1350 - Wood Chevrolet Co. v. Bank of the Southeast · May v. Strickland
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A foreign corporation may be sued in any county in which it does business by agent, and a domestic corporation may be sued in any county in which it does business by agent or was doing business by agent at the time the cause of action arose. . . ."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“may be sued in any county where it does business, by service of process upon an agent anywhere in the State.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“must have been doing business by agent in that county at the time suit was filed.”
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.