Woelfel v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 1989
23 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 Levin v. Hewes · Humphreys v. Walls · Trustees of the Catholic Cathedral Church v. Manning · County Commissioners v. Monnett · Quenstedt v. Wilson
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.
““None of the old English traditions apply to the office of justice of the peace in this state. Here they are founded on statutes passed in pursuance of the Constitution, which does not indicate what their ‘jurisdiction, duties and compensation’ shall be, but leaves those incidents of the office to the Legislature.” 177 Md. at 503 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Murphy v. Yates
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.