Womack v. Mcahren’s Empirical Analysis
1857
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 1950
21 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 Braman v. Howk · Eldridge v. Folwell · Ryman v. Clark · Lane v. Fox · Doe v. Holmes
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“After appearing and suffering the rule to plead to pass on the third day, it seems too late to take advantage of the service on the fifth.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Objections to process, and other preliminary and merely formal matters not going to the merits, should be taken at. the earliest moment.”
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.