Wood v. Weeks’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 1986
5 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 Voges Motor Co. v. Ward · Garner v. Garner · Lonergan v. Peebles
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The defendant was not the owner of the property, and was not. entitled to a verdict against the plaintiff, the general owner, for its full value, at the time of the taking, as shown by the evidence, to wit, $3,000. He only had an equitable or special interest in the property, in the nature of a ven-dee’s equitable lien, proportionate to the amount of the purchase price which he had paid, which in this case was $1,000, or approximately one-fourth of the total purchase price. Thus the verdict and judgment should have been for the value of defendant’s special interest, which was approximately one-fourth the value of the property at the time of the wrongful taking, and which could not in any event have exceeded the amount he had paid on the purchase price of the property. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.