Wood v. Cochrane’s Empirical Analysis
1866
Citation profile
1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 2009
1 district · 4 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 Richmond v. Woodard
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.
“principle is well settled . . . that when it is perfectly apparent upon the face of a written instrument that a mere clerical error has been made, and when it is apparent from the face of the instrument what the correction should be, to make the instrument what it would have been if the error had not occurred, courts will correct such error by construction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Stanzione“same legal effect and operation as though the error had not been made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Stanzione
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.