Watson v. Peters’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 1930 · most notably Grand Rapids Co v. Butler (1895), Concord Manufacturing Co. v. Robertson (1889)
25 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This conclusion is supported by Ryan v. Brown, 18 Mich. 196 , and to a certain extent by Yates v. Milwaukee, 10 Wall. 497 , also. Of its correctness we have no question.””
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.