Wright v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
154 F.2d 616 · 1946
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently December 1973 · most notably Baird v. Koerner (1960), Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance v. Brei (1962)
40 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 631 (Federal Magistrate Act of 1979)
Relies on Edmundson's Estate · Seward v. Nissen · Lockard v. Vare · Krepps v. Carlisle · Cake v. Cake
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * All evidence shall be admitted which is admissible under the statutes of the United States, or under the rules of evidence heretofore applied in the courts of the United States on the hearing of suits in equity, or under the rules of evidence applied in the courts of general jurisdiction of the state in which the United States court is held. * * *”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It has been correctly pointed out that this is a rule of admissibility not exclusion.” 154 F.2d at page 617 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.