Wells v. Driskell’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently February 2010 · most notably Smirl v. Globe Laboratories, Inc. (1945), Ward v. Scarborough (1922)
61 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We do not wish to be understood as holding that it is only necessary in case of an appeal from justice courts to file an appeal bond and send up that with the original papers without a proper transcript of the proceedings.”'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.