Wood v. Bapp’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently August 1974
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 Garvin v. Threlkeld · Randleman v. Taylor · Page v. Fowler · Payne v. McBride · Boe v. Arnold
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““These parties were fully agreed that the boundary was a fixed distance from a known line. If then, after learning that they were thus agreed, they had said, ‘Our line is 160 rods west of the east section line, and a line so located shall be our boundary,’ such agreement would have been exactly as though they had found stakes which they supposed were, but which were not, government stakes marking quarter corners, and both fully believing them to mark the true line had agreed that they did. Such an agreement would be without consideration. * * * [The agreement] was therefore not binding upon either party.” (emphasis supplied)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Osberg v. Murphy
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.