Kelly v. Waters’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
March 1888
most recently cited
2 state decisions
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘'If it had been meant to rely on the want of averment of an assignment, an amendment would have been allowed as a matter of course.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Webster v. Williams
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.