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Wright v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis

1885

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
3
states following
August 2021
most recently cited

12 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2021

12 state decisions

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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 Gardiner v. Gardiner · Whitney v. Twombly · Dennett v. Dennett · Howe v. Howe · Commonwealth v. Pomeroy

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “understand[] and decid[e] upon the terms of the contract”
    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.