Wilt v. Bueter’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently November 1985 · most notably Chadwick, Treasurer v. City of Crawfordsville (1940), 158 Ind. App. 177 - Saloom v. Holder (1973)
39 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 Norwood v. Baker · National Bank v. Kimball · Adams v. City of Shelbyville · Ross v. Stackhouse · City of Crawfordsville v. Braden
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has been frequently held that the owner of property affected by a proceeding based upon color of law may be estopped by his conduct from questioning the validity of an assessment against such property, even though it is void for the reason that there was no actual legal authority upon which such proceeding could rest;””
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.