Woods v. Monroe’s Empirical Analysis
1868
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently February 1983
22 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Mundy v. Monroe · Howard v. Moore
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is claimed that the case is not a proper one for relief in equity, inasmuch as the Complainant claims by his bill a complete legal title, which could be fully examined and settled at law, and a part of the defendants had already commenced suits in ejectment for the recovery of their undivided interests in one of the lots in controversy, which suits were stayed by injunction in this proceeding. “ We do not think there is any force to this objection. The complainant was in full possession of the lands, and was not, therefore, in position to bring his right to trial by a suit in ejectment. The defendants were severally bringing actions against him in respect to one of the lots; and as he had an unquestionable right to file a bill to quiet his title to the others, and the questions were, the same as to all, it was proper that, to avoid a multiplicity of suits, the ejectment suits should be enjoined, and the questions in controversy be all determined in one proceeding. Besides, the record title was in the defendants, which, of itself, would justify the bill.””
2 later decisions 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.