Wilson v. Union Tool Co.’s Empirical Analysis
265 F. 669 · 1920
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1980
4 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Leeds Catlin Company v. Victor Talking Machine Company · Wilson v. Simpson · In the Matter of the Petition of the Christensen Engineering Company for a Writ of Mandamus · Thomson-Houston Electric Co. v. Ohio Brass Co. · Proudfit Loose Leaf Co. v. Kalamazoo Loose Leaf Binder 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“impose such punishment as may seem proper,”
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.