Woolston v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 171 Ill. 2d 435 - Bucheleres v. Chicago Park District (1996), Lang v. Holly Hill Motel, Inc. (2009)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 10 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the issues of fact are framed by allegations of a defendant's negligence, defendant's denial thereof and defendant's affirmative defense of negligence on the part of the plaintiff, the instructions should be framed so as to present the issues in terms of the negligence of each party....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In determining and comparing fault, the jury must necessarily consider the obviousness of danger and the ease or difficulty with which harm to the plaintiff from that danger could be avoided by either party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Negligence is conduct falling below the standard established for the protection of others, or oneself, against unreasonable risk of harm.”
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.