Freeland v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1853
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 1938
6 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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If a fund is in the hands of an agent of our law, which is claimed by two non-residents, and one of them makes a demand in this State on the agent, under circumstances otherwise appropriate, we see no objection to a bill of interpleader, or a proceeding of that nature by the agent, for the purpose of compelling the claimants to litigate their rights. In such a proceeding, upon a decree against a non-resident, on notice by publication only, or by service beyond the limits of the State, he would, under the statute regulating the proceedings in chancery, (Art. 6) have an opportunity of contesting the validity on the merits.” [Freeland v. Wilson, 18 Mo. 380, 382 .] (Italics ours.)”
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.