Woods v. Spann’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 1969
13 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 Clark-Mcwilliams Coal Co. v. Ward · Farmers' & Merchants' Bank v. Davies · United States Ozone Co. v. Morrilton Ice Co. · Gregory v. Consolidated Utilities, Inc. · Alexandria Bank & Trust Co. v. Honeycutt
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A material change is one which causes the instrument to speak a different language in legal effect from that which it originally spoke. It is the effect upon the instrument, and not the particular manner in which it is done, which is material, and therefore an alteration, to be material, must not only be an actual alteration, but must be in a material part of the instrument, and must affect the rights' and liabilities of the parties.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.