Woolson v. Kelley’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently February 2007
3 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 Perkins v. Hanson · Kellogg v. Kelley · Robertson v. Rentz
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The only ground upon which the defendants could prevail would be equitable estoppel; that is, that plaintiffs or their agent, Kelley, had been guilty of negligence in placing the satisfaction on record, and that some third party or parties had changed their condition in reliance on the record, — as, for example, buying the land, and parting with a valuable consideration therefor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. May v. Ackerman
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.