Wilson v. Beckwith’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 1942
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 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 Leavenworth Lawrence and Galveston Railroad Company v. United States · Gibson v. Chouteau · Schulenberg v. Harriman · St Paul Co v. Northern Pac R Co · Railroad Company v. Baldwin
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question is firmly settled in this state by two direct adjudications holding that an unrecorded deed is good against a judgment if recorded before an execution sale under the judgment. Davis v. Owenby, 14 Mo. 170 , 55 Am. Dee. 105; Valentine v. Havener, 20 Mo. 133 . The counsel for the plaintiffs admits these authorities aré directly against him, but asks the court to review the question and determine the law otherwise. This we are not at liberty to do. The law has been settled for many years. It has become a rule of property, and titles have been vested on the strength of it. The stability of judicial decisions is of the utmost consequence, as on them reposes the security of property; and they are not to be tampered with to suit the views of different persons.””
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.