Spears v. Wise’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 1954
10 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 Kilgore & Son v. Shannon & Co. · Doyle v. Franklin · Webb v. Reynolds · Wiggins v. Steiner
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When not used in pleading for the above purpose, the general meaning of the phrase ‘to wit’ seems to be: ‘To particularize what is too general in the preceding sentence, and render clear and of certain application what might seem otherwise doubtful or obscure; words used to call attention to a more particular specification of what has preceded.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sarratt v. Arthur
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.