State v. Woods’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 1986
16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Before entering the decree, we feel constrained to give notice that, in view of the fact that constitutional authority is vested in the judges and courts of original jurisdiction to issue writs of habeas corpus in behalf of any person in actual custody, this court will not in future consider such an application, nor issue such a writ, unless a sufficient legal reason exists for not applying to the judges or courts of original jurisdiction, or when prompt and adequate relief is not otherwise available.””
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.