Wade v. Lynn’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 2006
2 district · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1652 (Rules of Decision Act)
Relies on Erie Co v. Tompkins · Bowen v. Johnston · Lamar v. Micou · Suckow Borax Mines Consolidated, Inc. v. Borax Consolidated, Ltd. · Owings v. Hull
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An action for bodily injury or injuring personal property shall be brought within two years after the cause thereof arose.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.