Willis v. Barron’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 1973
2 federal appellate · 17 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 Jones v. Shaw · Merrill v. . Green · Berthold v. O'Hara · Smith v. Lusher · Walker v. Wait
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The only reason AA'hy Morrison [the payee] Avas not bound as an obligor did not apply to Stockwell [the deceased]. There Avas then a legal obligation, and it was, of course, the single obligation of Stockwell.””
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.