Austin v. Wilcoxson’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently September 1988 · most notably Smellie v. Southern Pacific Co. (1931), Mediterranean Enterprises, Inc. v. Ssangyong Corp. (1983)
5 federal appellate · 45 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 Mattingly v. Pennie · Sheehan v. Sullivan · Davis v. Davis · Lathrop v. Bampton · McGrath v. Carroll
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not stating it too strongly to say that evidence so given under such circumstances must appear to any court to be in its nature the weakest and most unsatisfactory.””
2 later decisions 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.