Bell v. Wadley’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 1979
6 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 Muller v. Dows · Phelps v. McDonald · Ketchum v. Buckley · Harris v. Smith · Hume v. Kirkwood
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The nature of the action is local, and must be tried in the county where the land is situated, where it turns on the title to the property as distinct from the personal obligation, and the decree operates ex proprio vigore.”
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.