Devine v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 1968 · most notably Hecker v. Bleish (1928), Arnold v. May Department Stores Co. (1935)
28 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 Bailey v. Taaffe · Oberlander v. Fixen & Co. · Wynne v. Newman's Adm'or · Lyons v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co. · Goldsworthy v. Town of Linden
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it cannot be said clearly to appear that the trial court acted arbitrarily or unreasonably in exercising the discretion with which it was invested.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Curry v. Thompson
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.