Ware v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 1973
20 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 Crawford v. Wilson · Toler v. Goodin · Savannah, Florida & Western Rwy. Co. v. Smith · Savannah, Florida & Western Railway Co. v. Chaney · City of Cedartown v. Pickett
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an equitable cause of action on the basis of the plaintiff being the child of the deceased parties by virtual adoption, and a breach of the agreement to adopt,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ware v. Martin
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.