Wilson v. . Little’s Empirical Analysis
1849
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1940 · most notably Sexton v. Kessler & Co. (1912), Zartman v. First National Bank (1910)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 39 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Commercial Bank v. Kortright
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In such case [transfer of corporate stock], the transfer of the legal title being necessary to the change of possession, it is entirely consistent with a pledge of the goods. Indeed, it is in no ease inconsistent with it, if it appears by the terms of the contract that the debtor has a legal right to the restoration of the pledge on payment of the debt at any time, although after it falls due, and before the creditor has exercised the power of sale.””
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.