Wightman v. Catlin’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 1999
3 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 Riggs v. . Palmer · Moses v. . McDivitt · Baldwin v. Latson
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he evil against which the statute was directed was the purchase of claims for the sole purpose of making costs and annoying persons who would not be sued under other circumstances . . . . It was only the abuse of purchasing with the intent and for the purpose of bringing the action that the attorney might be benefited by the costs which his own action had produced which the Legislature prohibited.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the intent to bring a suit [was] . . . merely incidental and contingent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“undoubtedly correctly states the objects and limitations of the statute.”
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.