In Re Wells'petition’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 1980
8 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 Hinz v. Northland Milk & Ice Cream Co. · Scott v. McEwing · 10 Ill. App. 2d 273 - Dalton v. Alexander · 1 Cal. App. 593 - Pelegrinelli v. McCloud River Lumber Co. · Ktorides v. Kazamias
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * His failure to appear and defend was clearly not an accident, and if it was occasioned by mistake it was of law rather than fact for which no relief can be granted. * * *””
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.