Wilson v. Castro’s Empirical Analysis
1866
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 1950 · most notably Newport v. Hatton (1924), Frink v. Roe (1886)
1 federal appellate · 31 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 Davis v. Davis · Estrada v. Murphy · People ex rel. Pierce v. Morrill · Wattson v. Dowling · Scott v. Ward
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It matters not whether the presentation was made by tire confirmee, in his own name, in good faith, or with intent to defraud the actual owner of the claim, [as alleged in this caso;] a court of equity will control the legal title in his hands so as to protect tire just rights of others. But in ejectment, the legal title must control. ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bouldin v. Phelps
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.