Wilson v. Warden’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
March 2006
most recently cited
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · McGinnis v. Royster · Verrastro v. Sivertsen · Caltabiano v. Planning & Zoning Commission · Payton v. Albert
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Statutes should be construed to avoid absurd consequences and bizarre results;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.