Wells v. Nickles’s Empirical Analysis
104 U.S. 444 · 1881
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2009 · most notably In re Neagle (1890), Brooks v. Dewar (1941)
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The effort we have made to ascertain and fix-the authority of these timber agents by any positive provision of law has been unsuccessful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Neagle
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.