Watts v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 1949 · most notably Scheller v. Groesbeck (1921), Schaeffer v. Williams (1918)
2 federal appellate · 26 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.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“• “The deed from Warren to Perkins, through which plaintiff claims, does not convey to the grantee the land in controversy. And it is not competent in an action of trespass to try title to show that it was intended to embrace land not in fact included in the description. If any action had been brought by Perkins against Warren for reformation of the deed, the evidence introduced to,show the mistake wquld have been sufficient to warrant a decree in his favor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McManus v. Chollar
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.