Wright v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis
1854
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 1982 · most notably In Re the Estate of Findlay (1930), Eldridge v. Eldridge (1944)
1 federal appellate · 33 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This kind of proof is sufficient as to pedigree, and the title to property consequent thereon. The relatives are properly supposed to be cognizant of such matters. They are interested in having them rightly understood in protecting the good name and fame of the family from injurious reports.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Estate of Dexheimer
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.