Edwards v. Willson’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 1956
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 Lellman v. Mills · Ayre v. Hixson · Columbia Copper Mining Co. v. Duchess Mining, Milling & Smelting Co. · Phelan v. Cheyenne Brick Co. · Patterson v. Lee-Clarke-Andreesen Hardware Co.
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 question is whether there is sufficient evidence to sustain these findings. It is not whether this court from the written report of the evidence, would so find. The trial court had most of the principal witnesses before it, giving that court the better opportunity to judge of their character and credibility.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eblen v. Eblen
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.