Godwin v. . Monds’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 1994
10 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It was contended on the argument that the plaintiffs did not except and assign as error that the judge heard the motion and gave judgment in the county of Anson. That is so; but it does not appear upon the face of the record, in some way, as it should do, that the court had authority to give the judgment, and, therefore, the objection might be taken here, in the absence of any formal exception or assignment of error.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Allen v. . R. R.
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.