Wallace v. Rappleye’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably 77 Ill. 2d 49 - Hewitt v. Hewitt (1979), Boland v. Catalano (1987)
1 federal appellate · 44 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 Semmes v. Worthington · Sutton v. Hayden · Phillips v. Thompson · Sitton v. Shipp · Mundorff v. Kilbourn
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘It is incumbent on the court to look upon such evidence with great jealousy, and to weigh it in the most scrupulous manner, to see what is the character and position of the witnesses generally, and whether they are corroborated to such an extent as to secure confidence that they are telling the truth. ’ ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Helmers v. Brand
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.