Willis v. Fox’s Empirical Analysis
1870
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 1938
10 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 Bond v. Lockwood · Picot v. O'Fallon · Freeland v. Dazey · Batchelder v. Batchelder
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Courts of equity still have jurisdiction over guardians, and may control them and compel them to account (2 Kent, ; Willard’s Eq. Jur. 621); but they should not exercise this jurisdiction except in extraordinary cases, or when some special reasons are shown to exist why the matter should be withdrawn from the probate court. Batchelder v. Batchelder, 20 Wis. 452 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cawker v. Dreutzer
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.