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← 182 VA 888 - Woods v. Stull

Woods v. Stull’s Empirical Analysis

1944

Citation profile

42
cited by 42 later decisions
1
states following
August 2016
most recently cited

10 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Kubota Tractor Corp. v. Strack (2008), Dameron Old Republic National Title Insurance Company v. O Tyler S

10 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions

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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 Chakales v. Djiovanides · Linkous v. Stevens · Mills v. Embrey · Drewry v. Doyle · Dulaney v. Smith

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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “If the language is so vague, indefinite, or equivocal that any one of the elements is left in uncertainty, the trust must fail.”
    4 later decisions 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.