Wheeler v. Wendleton’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 1986
5 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 Midyett v. Kerby · Taylor v. Rudy · Hinkle v. Broadwater · Holt, Trustee v. Cassinelli, Admx. · Greer v. Fontaine
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The fact that the consideration for this agreement was not paid would not revest the title in Hunt, but Avould only give him a right to enforce collection of the amount due him for his improvements and taxes.” * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bryant v. Bryant
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.