Wiggin v. St. Louis’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently September 1968 · most notably Benton v. City of St. Louis (1909), Reedy v. St. Louis Brewing Ass'n (1901)
2 federal appellate · 73 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 Buesching v. St. Louis Gaslight Co. · Bassett v. City of St. Joseph · Lancaster v. Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance · Kiley v. City of Kansas · Young v. Byrd
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A street which has a deep, unprotected excavation, extending from an adjacent lot to its margin, is not in a reasonably safe condition for travel.”
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.