Winslow v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 1985
9 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 Story v. Concord & Montreal Railroad · Leighton v. Sargent · Hearn v. Boston & Maine Railroad · Tyler v. Stevens · Folsom v. Brawn
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the affidavits offered by the plaintiff, [the affidavits under consideration in the case from which this quotation is taken were those of a juror and of one to whom the juror had confided], . . . to sustain his motion were not competent testimony, as it seems they were not, . . . it appears . . . that the law furnished other adequate means for ascertaining whether the question submitted to the jury was misconstrued by them and whether their verdict was rendered erroneous thereby. The court could have called the jury together and inquired of them how they construed the question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Caldwell v. Yeatman
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.