Willett v. Porter’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 1992 · most notably Teegarden v. Lewis (1895), Blough v. Parry (1896)
26 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 Kenworthy v. Williams · Judah v. Trustees of Vincennes University · Reed v. Watson · Runkle v. Gates · Trout v. West
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Were we to sanction the practice resorted to in this case, in thus substituting, even by the agreement of counsel, the clerk of the court, or some one else, in the place of the judge of the court and hold that such person could legally hold the court, preside at the return of the verdict and during the polling of the jury, receive the verdict, and discharge the jury, we should never know where to stop.” (p. 255.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Keehn
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.