Wilkes v. Cornelius’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 1951 · most notably Branch v. Lambert (1922), Popejoy v. Boynton (1924)
33 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 Flinn v. Shackleford · Cook v. Davis · Zachary v. Chambers · Bennett v. Stephens
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The claim in the case at bar, as presented, did not show any liability against the estate, and the executor for his own protection was necessarily compelled ' to disallow it. An executor stands as the representative of all the creditors as well as the heirs, legatees, and distributees, and however liberally disposed he may be to waive technical defenses and deal with creditors on the basis of substantial justice, he is not at liberty to waive the technical rights of those whom he represents.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Branch v. Lambert
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.