Wood v. White’s Empirical Analysis
97 F.2d 646 · 1938
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 1998 · most notably Monacelli v. Grimes (1953), District of Columbia v. Mt. Vernon Seminary (1938)
12 federal appellate · 18 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 Hess v. Pawloski · Wuchter v. Pizzutti · Shaw v. Railroad Co. · United States of America v. Lexington Mill & Elevator Company · American Express Company v. United States No 405 National Express Company
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The acceptance by a non-resident individual, firm or corporation of the rights and privileges of using the roads and highways of Maryland * * * shall be deemed equivalent to an appointment by such non-resident individual * * * of the Secretary of State * * * to be his * * * true and lawful attorney upon whom may be served all lawful processes in any action or proceeding instituted * * * against him * * * growing out of any accident or collision in which said nonresident may be involved, while operating or causing to be operated, a motor vehicle on such public highway * * * ” Code Md.1951, art. 66%, § 113.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Solis v. Bailey
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.