Wells v. Elsam’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 1940
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.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is difficult to see what occasion there is, with such a statute, to resort to any other remedy. Without deciding how far it has abrogated other remedies, we are clearly of opinion that no other remedy can place the moving party in any better position than where that law places him.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carpenter v. Hood““The practice of setting off judgments either on motion or otherwise, except when suit is brought on one of them, is one upon which there is considerable difference of opinion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. O'Donnell
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.