Wilson v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2025 · most notably Yarborough v. Yarborough (1933), Sutton v. Leib (1952)
9 federal appellate · 41 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Van Voorhis v. . Brintnall · Commonwealth v. Lane · Estate of Stull · Lanham v. Lanham · Pennegar v. State
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is quite obvious' that no civilized state can allow its domiciled subjects or citizens, by making a temporary visit to a foreign country, to enter into a contract to be performed in the place of domicile, if the contract is forbidden by the law of the place of domicile as contrary to religion or morality, or to any of its fundamental institutions.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.