Whitehead v. Foley’s Empirical Analysis
1866
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 1967
17 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.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Title acquired by inheritance is as regular and effectual as if by written memorial.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Marshburn v. Stewart
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.