Donnell v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2017
5 federal appellate · 9 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 State v. Meyers · State v. Coleman · Matlock v. Williamsville Greenville & St. Louis Railway Co. · A. M. Stevens Lumber Co. v. Kansas City Lumber Co. · Edwards v. M'Kee
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To say that we proceed in the correction of errors nisi, upon the theory we commit none ourselves tickles the judicial fancy, but is quite untrue.”
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.