Woods v. Legg’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 1927
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.
Relationships
Relies on Bland v. Bowie · Martin v. Ellerbe's Adm'r · Pettit's Adm'r v. Pettit's Distributees · Calhoun v. Fletcher · Wilburn & Co. v. McCalley
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.
““The administrator, who makes a sale of personal property upon his own authority, would not be allowed to avoid the sale, because, being personal property, it was assets in his hands, to which he had the legal title, and he and his sureties would be liable for the proceeds, or for a devastavit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sims v. Hipp
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.