Watson v. Voorhees’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 1927
10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The plaintiffs have had their day in court. They knew then of .this defense, as fully as they do now, yet they failed to set it up. No: excuse is given, no reason shown why they did not make their defense in the foreclosure suit. They probably had no defense .to the mote; but if their present claim in’ reference to the land, and its freedom from liability for this debt, is a good one, they could have set it up in that suit, and thereby prevented ,a decree' of foreclosure. There is no reason why they should have two opportunities of interposing the same defense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stauffer v. Watts
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.