Wilson v. Ingram’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1979
8 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 Hertz v. Abrahams · Comer v. Comer · Hicks v. Smith · Floyd v. Floyd · Everitt v. Laspeyre
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'In the matter of construing the rights of an adopted child to take under a will, it should be borne in mind that it is not a question of the right of an adopted child to inherit, but simply a question of the testator’s intent with respect to those who are to share in his estate. The disposition of the courts is to confine and limit the word”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smyth v. Anderson
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.