Ward v. Yarnelle’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably Moore-Mansfield Construction Co v. Indianapolis, Newcastle & Toledo Railway Co. (1913), Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. Smith (1912)
2 federal appellate · 56 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 Lowe v. Turpie · Indianapolis Northern Traction Co. v. Brennan · Brooks v. Railway Co. · Peterson v. Dillon · Winchester Wagon Works & Manufacturing Co. v. Carman
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to superintend the construction of the building”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“for the purpose of raising funds to complete”
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.