Wetmore v. McDougall’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 1934
6 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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ During the entire trial of the cause, the plaintiff’s counsel proceeded upon the theory of recovering upon the special count; and it was not until after the evidence was all in that he abandoned this view, and sought to recover upon the common counts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wyatt v. Herring
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.