Wainwright v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 2006 · most notably Commonwealth v. Welansky (1944), Kent v. Commonwealth (2002)
35 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 Atchison Ry Co v. Toops · Stone v. Boston & Albany Railroad · Guinan v. Famous Players-Lasky Corp. · Reid v. Doherty · Falk v. Finkelman
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It may be assumed that that statute is available in appropriate cases for the benefit of tenants in an apartment house”
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.