Woolworth v. Root’s Empirical Analysis
40 F. 723 · 1889
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently June 1947
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Snell v. Insurance Co. · Newton v. . Bronson · Barnes v. Henshaw
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““He does not pretend that the character of his possession has changed, or that any notice was ever given to the Mortons or to this complainant of the title or claim under which he was holding possession. * * * By the decree, and the deed made in pursuance of-it, all title and right of possession in Root was transferred to complainant. Under these circumstances, no retention of possession was adverse to the title conveyed, and he could not bolster up a title based upon that possession until he had first given notice of his intention to claim adversely.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Graydon v. Hurd
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.