Wilson v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
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Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2007
12 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 Smith v. Kearney
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The appellant [heir] still'owes the debt'to his father’s estate, although the right to enforce its payment by an action has been destroyed by the discharge in bankruptcy. This being the case, the result is that the debt thus due by' the appellant constitutes a part of the assets of the estate which is now in the hands of the appellant; and, if this be so, then nothing would seem to be plainer or more strictly in accordance with equitable principles than that the appellant should account for these assets before he can be entitled to receive anything out of the other assets of the estate.””
1 later decision 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.