Wolters v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 2017
1 federal appellate · 18 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 Meshwert v. Meshwert · Vondy v. Commissioners Court of Uvalde County · Ex Parte Dick Duncan · Guillory v. State · Pat Walker & Co., Inc. v. Johnson
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]his measure imposes a hardship upon the parties, who must retry an often long and complicated case. Moreover, it nullifies the time and effort of the court. For this reason, a new trial should be granted only where it appears that no other action will adequately protect the right of the appellant to review by the court of appeals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“sanctions should be imposed to compel a court reporter to complete the [reporter's record] where the reporter has been dilatory.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Ryan“[t]he neglect of the court reporter harms the appellant, appellee, and the courts,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Ryan
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.