Wilson v. Everett’s Empirical Analysis
139 U.S. 616 · 1891
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1951 · most notably Dimick v. Schiedt (1935), Fairmount Glass Works v. Cub Fork Coal Co. (1933)
52 federal appellate · 2 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 Amory v. Amory
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All tlie Instructions complained of in these assignments of error, except the second, involve only the matter of the surplus over $22r>,000: and, as it clearly appears that that portion of the plaintiffs’ claim was disallowed, there could have been no prejudice to the defendant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kilham v. Wilson
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.