Wiggins v. Armstrong’s Empirical Analysis
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Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2016 · most notably Grupo Mexicano Desarrollos v. Alliance Bond Fund Inc, Grupo Mexicano De Desarrollo, S. A. v. Alliance Bond Fund, Inc. (1999)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The reason of the rule seems to be, that until the creditor has established his title, he has no right to interfere, and it would lead to an unnecessary, and, perhaps, a fruitless and oppressive interruption of the exercise of the debtor's rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“unless he has a certain-claim upon the property of the debtor he has no concern with his frauds.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Scott v. Neely
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.