Sharp v. Wilhite’s Empirical Analysis
1841
Citation profile
1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently May 1986
1 district · 2 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.
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although the witness was not competent to prove Ms own account, if he could prove it by another witness, yet, as the defendant waived the question of competency, the evidence of the plaintiff as to the justice of the account was as material as it would have been had no objection to its competency existed.””
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.