Wilde v. Rawles’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 1925
1 federal appellate · 5 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 Freeman v. Howe · Tucker v. Parks · Carroll v. Sprague · Stone v. O'Brien · Stone v. Bird
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If an officer, in attempting to execute process of execution or attachment, by mistake or design takes goods not the property of defendant in the writ, or goods not lawfully subject to seizure on such writ, he is a trespasser, and acquires no right to the goods seized, and the injured party may have replevin for their recovery, or may proceed against the officer in trespass or trover, at his election.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.