Watson v. Wagner’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 1986
11 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 Wilmarth v. Woodcock · Darrah v. Boyce · Hoffman v. Ross · Merrill v. Allen · C. H. Little Co. v. Woodward Avenue Cemetery Ass'n
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defendant's counsel is correct in his contention that the facts upon which the claim of fraud is based must be alleged, rather than conclusions. But it is sufficient if the substance of the transaction and the result is alleged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Spelman v. Addison
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.