Wells v. Lloyd IV’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently February 2010 · most notably Hobart v. Hobart Estate Co. (1945), Austin v. Massachusetts Bonding & Insurance (1961)
5 federal appellate · 40 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 Empire State Cattle Company v. Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company No 178 Minnesota & Dakota Cattle Company · Neel v. Pennsylvania Co. · Beuttell v. Magone · Frost v. Witter · J. F. Parkinson Co. v. Building Trades Council
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is of the essence of a conspiracy that the parties should have a common purpose or design. Whether the defendants conspired together for any purpose, and if so, what that purpose was, were questions of fact.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Biggs v. Tourtas
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.