Wight v. Dubois’s Empirical Analysis
21 F. 693 · 1884
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 2007
6 federal appellate · 1 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 St.louis Smelting and Refining Company v. Kemp. · Boggs v. Merced Mining Co.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the protestant has no further standing to be heard anywhere. The protest cannot be made the basis of any litigation in the court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“when grantor and grantee are satisfied, a stranger has nothing to say”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.