Wood v. Keith’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 1948
14 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 Bashford v. People · Hiner v. Hawkins
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whatever connected with a trial is forbidden on the grounds of public policy the party concerned may. except to, and that he has the same right to insist upon his exception when it has reference to the branch of a rule prescribed for the direction of the highest officer of justice, as of one for the lowest. The correctness of motive, the high standing and upright character of the officer • concerned, cannot be considered on such an exception, and consequently cannot be an answer to it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Aldridge v. Capps
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.