Wescott v. Bridwell’s Empirical Analysis
1867
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 1916
11 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 Wibbing v. Powers · Ashburn v. Ayres
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.
“■ “This court has the power, upon the record before it, to make the judgment conform to the issues tried in the cause: and it will therefore .be affirmed as to the matters in issue upon the answer and reply, and reversed and the cause dismissed as to the other defendants.””
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.