Wilson v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 1993
3 federal appellate · 16 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 Kelly v. Thomas · Glenn v. Kittanning Brewing Co. · Wolf v. Pennsylvania Railroad · Passmore v. Allentown & Reading Traction Co. · Althouse v. Cobaugh Colliery 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]rdinarily there is no presumption that officers will commit such breach of trust, and the charge that they will should rest on acts, affirmative or permissive, duly averred, manifestly in violation of duty, and manifestly the result of fraud and not erroneous judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Kistler v. Faller · Garber v. Lego
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.