Wyatt v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 1974
12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where a judgment has been opened up at the instance of parties who have, as in the present case, a valid defense, the section of the code should receive a liberal, in place of a narrow technical, construction.” (p. 190.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hill v. Sweet
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.