Ruth v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 1988
6 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.
Relationships
Relies on McAfee v. Reynolds · Hutcheson v. Grubbs · Isaac v. Swift · Newell v. Dart · Gardenhire v. King
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The rule of universal importance to the owners of real property and society in general is that time, when it has once commenced to run by operation of statute, will not cease to do so by reason of any subsequent event or condition for which the statute has not expressly provided.’ ” (p. 1052.)”
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.