5 E.H. Smith 186 - De Wolfe v. . Abraham’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 1940
2 district · 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedDe Wolfe v. Abraham
Relationships
Relies on Anderson v. Hill
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think to so hold [that they could be] is to ignore a distinction that exists in all jurisdictions where the common law is administered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.