Atkinson v. Plum’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
1 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 1990 · most notably 149 W. Va. 246 - Barnett v. Wolfolk (1965), Stuart v. Lake Washington Realty Corporation (1956)
1 district · 25 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 Brant v. Virginia Coal and Iron Company et al. · Morgan v. Railroad Co. · Norfolk & W. R. v. Perdue · Fidelity Insurance, Trust & Safe Deposit Co. v. Shenandoah Valley Railroad · Bates v. Swiger
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.
“Intention is the pole star in the matter.”
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.