Woolf v. McGaugh’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
121 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 946 So. 2d 536 - Ex Parte Seymour (2006), City of Birmingham v. Wills (1912)
121 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 Cooper v. Reynolds · Casey v. Adams · Sentenis v. . Ladew · Lamar v. Commissioners' Court of Marshall County · Allin v. Connecticut River Lumber Co.
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“•‘All actions for the recovery of land, or the possession thereof, or for a trespass thereto, must be brought in the county where the land lies; a summons issuing contrary to this section must be abated on the plea of the defendant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Terrell v. Kimbrell
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.