Wilson v. Orr’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 1987 · most notably Fisher v. Carrousel Motor Hotel, Inc. (1967), Surrency v. Harbison (1986)
27 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 McMillan v. Aiken · Parisian Co. v. Williams · Rich v. McInerny · Central of Georgia Ry. Co. v. Carlock · Lunsford v. Dietrich
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“What constitutes an arrest? `No manual touching of the body or actual force is necessary to constitute an arrest. It is sufficient, if the party is within the power of the officer and submits.'”
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.