Waggoner v. Zundelowitz’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 1979 · most notably Dossett v. Franklin Life Ins. (1925), San Angelo Water, Light & Power Co. v. Baugh (1925)
25 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 Grymes v. Sanders · Southern Development Co of Nevada v. Silva · Cooper v. Schlesinger · McLean v. Clapp · Lehigh Zinc & Iron Co. v. Bamford
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is elementary that a special charge should be refused unless correct in all its parts. The trial court is under no obligation to separate the correct from the incorrect portions.””
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.