Wilkinson v. McCullough’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 1960 · most notably Kribbs v. JACKSON (1957), Allegheny By-Product Coke Co. v. J. H. Hillman & Sons Co. (1922)
2 federal appellate · 23 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 Everhart v. Searle · Rice v. Davis · Cannell v. Smith · Pratt v. Patterson's Executors · Rich v. Black & Baird
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.
““. . . The general principle is that out of consideration for the weakness of human nature, the law will not permit real estate brokers and others occupying fiduciary relations to place themselves in a position where they are open to the claims of conflicting duties, or to the claims of duty conflicting with self-interest.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cox v. McCarter
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.