Woolley v. Mears’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 1974
15 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 State v. Julow · Lohmeyer v. St. Louis Cordage Co. · State ex inf. Hadley v. Standard Oil Co. · Frank L. Fisher Co. v. Woods · State ex rel. Harris v. Herrmann
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no good reason which could be assigned why it should not be made applicable to all cities and other portions of the State.”
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.