Wilson v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently November 1949 · most notably Crenshaw v. Crenshaw (1948), Hood v. Nichol (1930)
6 federal appellate · 40 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.
Relationships
Relies on Jordan v. Davis · Cline v. Jones · Hayes v. Boylan
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ It seems clear that this deed was placed by her father [the grantor] in the hands of Lizzie Elson [the grantee] with the mutual understanding that, if he at any time desired to withdraw it, she should return it to him.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilbur v. Grover
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.