Mobley v. . Watts’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 1951
1 federal appellate · 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.
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.
“If the record is lost and is ancient, its existence and contents may sometimes be presumed, but whether it be ancient or recent, after proof of the loss, its contents may be proved like any other document, by secondary evidence, where (560) the case does not from its nature disclose the existence of other and better evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Isley v. . Boon
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.