Cormack v. Wolcott’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2013
8 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 People, Ex Rel. Townshend v. . Cady · Buck & Spencer v. Collins · Webber v. Townley
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At common law, parties had no vested rights in the examination of a record of title, or other public records, save by some interest in the land or subject of record”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.