Paine v. Woolley’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 1959
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.
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.
““It seems inconsistent that a party should proceed on his judgment as good and valid in one court, while he is contending in another tribunal that it is erroneous, and ought to be reversed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Madden v. Madden““Such inconsistency and self-stultification is abhorrent to the law. It exhibits a disregard for the rights of the defendants, for the judgment must be either legal or erroneous.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Smith
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.