Willard v. Whitaker’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently December 1999
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 Wichita Falls & Oklahoma Railway Co. v. Pepper · McFarlane v. Whitney · Southern Underwriters v. Kelly · Dallas Railway & Terminal Co. v. Starling · Gregg v. First. Nat. Bank In Brownsville
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 law is that acts or declarations made before the formation of a conspiracy or after the object of the conspiracy is accomplished is not admissible unless so closely connected with the accomplishment as to form a part of the res gestae.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Whedon v. Cravens
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.