Woods v. Morrell’s Empirical Analysis
1814
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1904
3 federal appellate · 13 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.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Tlie best test by which to ascertain whether the matter be impertinent is to try whether the subject of the allegation could be put in issue and would be matter proper to be given in evidence between the parties." “These principles must be my guide: Are the allegations excepted to material? Do they tend to establish the complainant’s case? Are they pertinent to the main issue?””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burden v. Burden““Wlien now matter not responsive to the hill was stated in the answer, if such matter was wholly irrelevant and furnished no sufficient ground of defense, the complainant might except to the answer for impertinence, or might raise the question on the hearing.” “Facts not material to the decision are impertinent, and, if reproachful, they are scandalous.””
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.