Warren v. . Makely’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 1966
10 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The question is simple and absolute, unaccompanied with any suggestion that the two tracts possessed the same or similar qualities in soil, culture, location or improvement, or possessed in common the elements that enter into the estimate of their respective values. . . . As presented to us in the record, and without any explanatory circumstances, the question was properly excluded as irrelevant and misleading.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Belding v. . Archer
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.