Wilcox v. Bierd’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2011 · most notably Van Beeck v. Sabine Towing Co. (1937), 22 Ill. 2d 73 - Knierim v. Izzo (1961)
7 federal appellate · 91 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 Holton v. Daly · City of Chicago v. Major · Selden v. Illinois Trust & Savings Bank · North Chicago Street Railroad v. Ackley · Dukeman v. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway 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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“blood relatives ... in existence at the time of the death of the deceased who would take his personal property in case he died intestate.”
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.