Clark v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 1968
18 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 Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co. v. Bagley · Graham v. Updegraph · Taylor v. Swift & Co. · Beneke v. Bankers Mortgage Co. · Powers v. Badger Lumber Co.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where a demurrer to a petition is sustained on the ground that the petition does not state a cause of action, the filing of such petition does not arrest the running of the statute of limitations, and the filing of an amended petition does not relate back to the date of the filing of the original petition so as to deprive the defendant of the defense of the statute.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Turner v. Jarboe · Waddell v. Woods
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.