Woodburn v. Grimes’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2009 · most notably Sproles v. McDonald (1962), Sachs v. BOARD OF TRUSTEES, ETC. (1976)
30 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 State v. Carr · Thurmond v. Espalin · Murray Hotel Co. v. Golding · Rodriguez v. La Cueva Ranch Co. · Ward v. Rodriguez
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Interesting as this testimony is, we do not find it necessary to resolve the conflict. We rest our conclusion on the evidence as to the true location on the ground of the dividing line between the land of the contending parties.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gilman v. Powers
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.