Wood v. Lake’s Empirical Analysis
1860
Citation profile
4 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1996 · most notably STANTON v. Embrey, Administrator (1877), 62 Wis. 2d 273 - Lorenz v. Dreske (1974)
4 district · 29 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It would be irrational and absurd to say that the court which had first acquired jurisdiction should arrest its proceedings, because the court of another government, having concurrent jurisdiction over the same subject-matter and parties, had subsequently attempted to take jurisdiction of the case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hepner v. Hepner
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.