Wolf v. Gerlach’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 1966
9 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 Soehnlein v. Soehnlein · Miller v. Payne · State ex rel. Dulaney v. Nygaard
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Logically, it would seem that the respective rights of life tenant and remainderman in extraordinary distributions should be governed by the same principles, whether the distribution is made by a corporation which contemplates a continuance of its corporate existence and business, or is made in process of liquidation, or in contemplation of consolidation or merger with another corporation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. duPont v. duPont
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.