Watson v. Toms’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
March 1907
most recently cited
2 state decisions
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“ifIf it appear by- the return of .such writ that any property has been attached thereon, and that neither -of the defendants could be found, the plaintiff shall, within thirty days after such return, unless the- defendants or some of them shall sooner appear in the suit, cause a notice to be published,” etc.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cochrane v. Johnson
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.