Willis v. Lance’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 1948
13 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 Holmes v. Whitaker · Thomas v. Thomas · Pugh v. Good · Douglass v. Trask · Wilson v. City of Salem
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ The plaintiffs ’ action, being founded in tort, precludes the defendant from proving the existence of any custom or usage to excuse his alleged negligence.””
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.