Ward v. Cozzens’s Empirical Analysis
1854
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently October 1933
3 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 McCormick v. Sullivant · Joseph Kennedy v. The Bank of the State of Georgia · Clark v. Holmes · Foster v. Preston
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All the authorities are very clear, that a judge of a court of record cannot be held responsible for any acts done by him in his official capacity, and they are equally clear, that in no instance can his-orders, judgments, or decrees be treated as nullities” (citing numerous cases to which others might now be added). “The foregoing authorities establish this proposition, that in all cases where the parties act within the power and scope of an order of the superior court, without reference to their jurisdiction, and of an inferior court, when having jurisdiction, they are protected. The same immunities that are extended to the members of the respective courts are extended to the parties.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. Rosecrantz
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.