Watson v. Glover’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 1970
17 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 Ely v. New Mexico & Arizona Railroad · Castro v. Barry · Wall v. Magnes · Vietor v. Glover · Damon v. Leque
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under our system of pleading, the name or designation given a complaint is immaterial and unimportant. Its sufficiency must be tested by the allegations which it contains. In Damon v. Leque, 14 Wash. 253 ( 44 Pac. 261 ), we said: ‘If a plaintiff sets forth facts constituting a cause of action and entitling him to some relief, he is not to be turned out of court because he has misconceived the nature of his remedial right.’ ””
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.