Wilson v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 1995 · most notably Kaczorowski v. Kalkosinski (1936), Magnolia Coca Cola Bottling Co. v. Jordan (1935)
1 federal appellate · 24 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 Turner v. Cross and Eddy, Receivers · Littlewood v. . Mayor, Etc., of New York · Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Cassin · Thompson v. Fort Worth & Rio Grande Railway Co. · Legg v. Britton
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Art. 4695 (3018). Character of Wrongful Act. — The wrongful act, negligence, carelessness, unskillfulness or default, mentioned in the preceding article, must be of such a character as would, if death had not ensued, have entitled the party injured to maintain an action for such injury. (Acts 1860, p. 32 — Acts 1887, p. 44, Acts 1892, S. S., p. 5.)””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hovey v. See · Canode v. Sewell
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.