MacIey v. Woods’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 2001
9 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 33 Del. Ch. 113 - Richard Paul, Inc. v. Union Improvement Co. · Tindall v. Corbi · Hart v. Durr · Betley v. Gordy Construction Company
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the ambiguous language in the plaintiffs' deed must be held to be merely a grant of the right to the use of the proposed extension when it becomes a street or, perhaps, as long as Weldin reserved it for future use as a street.”
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.