Webb v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 1992
2 federal appellate · 10 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 Cowden v. Cowden · Russell v. Bush · Smith Bros. v. Agee & Co. · Norris v. Kelly · Penney v. Speake
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * if the evidence reasonably satisfies the court or jury that the defendant wrongfully had possession of the property at the time of the commencement of the suit, the plaintiff may recover the costs of suit and damages for the detention.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The plaintiff claims of the defendant the following personal property to-wit: Five Hundred Sixty-five ($565.00) Dollars in money with the value of the hire or use thereof during the detention from May 10, 1965.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“had the effect of annulling it in its entirety and the case stood as though no decree had ever been rendered”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stone v. Williams
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.