Decker v. Widdicomb’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 1928
4 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 Heaton v. Edwards · Antisdel v. Canfield · Wood v. Wells · Brooks v. Leathers
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The newspaper advertisement was competent as showing in part what was done by plaintiffs in pursuance of what they claimed they were expected to do. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Montgomery v. Empey
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.