Wathen v. MacKey’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2009 · most notably McBride v. Moss (1969), Wright Ex Rel. Wright v. Jackson (1959)
26 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 Baker v. Clark · Hunt v. Whitlock's Administrator · Hogge v. Anchor Motor Freight, Inc., of Delaware · Cadle v. McHargue · Berry v. Irwin
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule . of appellate procedure that a party is estopped from complaining of errors committed or invited by himself applies to the instructions. A party can not complain of an instruction given in the exact, or substantially the same language of an instruction asked for by him, or if it is to the same effect. Nor can he question instructions which were prepared or requested by him, since he invited the error. This is so even though he excepted to the giving of it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gibson v. Thomas““We cannot see how the fact that the suit was brought and prosecuted in the manner indicated could have in any wise prejudiced the rights of appellant. The infant was treated in the petition, defendants’ answer, and throughout trial, as the real party, and ‘no one can mistake its purpose to have a recovery for the infant, and for injuries received by him.’ Chesapeake & O. R. Co. v. Case, 158 Ky. 594 , 165 S.W. 968, 969 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McBride v. Moss
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.