Woods v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1966
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.
Relationships
Relies on American Process Co. v. Florida White Pressed Brick Co. · Commercial Credit Co. v. Parker · Commercial Credit Co. Inc. v. Parker · Marriott v. Meadows
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.
“When one of two innocent parties must suffer through the act or negligence of a third person, the loss should fall upon the one who by his conduct created the circumstances which enabled the third party to perpetrate the wrong or cause the loss.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Inman v. Rowsey“the subject matter was an automobile capable of being speedily moved to any part of the country,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Inman v. Rowsey
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.