Irwin v. Willis’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2019
19 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 Hermann v. Mobley · Keeter v. Bank of Ellijay · Smith v. Manning · Stillwell, Millen & Co. v. Savannah Grocery Co. · Crawford v. Ross
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The sole criticism in the petition of the conduct of the lessees since the fire is the allegation that they had failed to exercise the right conferred upon them in the lease to require the restoration of the building,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Geele v. Willis
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.