Gordon J. Wells, and Loretta C. Wells v. Walter C. Rau’s Empirical Analysis
393 F.2d 362 · 1968
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 1990
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Evans v. S. J. Groves & Sons Co. · Price v. Williams · 238 F. Supp. 1011 - Randolph v. Ottenstein · Randolph v. Ottenstein
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not a new idea that these release cases, involving as they do the invocation of the equitable powers of the court to avert injustice, are heavily affected by their own facts and do not lend themselves neatly to generalized legal rules.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.