Wilkins v. Maggard’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 1964 · most notably Patterson v. McKay (1939), Reynolds v. Plants (1938)
26 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 Bender v. Bean · Sutton v. Lee · Beloate v. State Ex Rel. Attorney General · Carpenter v. Minter · Tedford v. Emison
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No purchaser of any land, town or city lot, nor any person claiming under him, shall be entitled to any compensation for any improvements which he shall make on such land, town or city lot, within two years from and after the sale thereof; for improvements made after two years from the date of sale the purchaser shall be allowed the full cash value of such improvements, and the same shall he a charge upon said land.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gulley v. Blake
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.