Holmes v. Wolfard’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 1946
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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 Sabin v. Columbia Fuel Co. · Currie v. Bowman · Kiernan v. Kratz · Mayes v. Stephens · Patterson v. Patterson
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any person in possession, by himself or his tenant, of real property, may maintain an action of an equitable nature against another- who claims an estate or interest therein adverse to him, for the purpose of determining such claim, estate, or interest.””
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.