Wilson v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 2005
5 federal appellate · 9 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 Hiram Barber v. Huldah a Barber by Her Next Friend George Cronkhite · Sistare v. Sistare · Matilda Von Ellert Sistare v. Horace Randall Sistare · Charles Lynde v. Mary W Lynde Mary W Lynde · Reid v. United States
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The termination of the suit rendered the order for maintenance therein prospectively inoperative, so that no installments accrued thereon after such termination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kean v. Commissioner
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.