Wheelock v. Eyl’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 2002
1 federal appellate · 10 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 Socony Vacuum Oil Co. v. Marvin · Leland v. Kauth · Schudlich v. Yankee · Zimmerman v. Goldberg · Cebulak v. Lewis
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a criminal conviction after trial, or plea, or payment of a fine is not admissible as substantive evidence of conduct at issue in a civil case arising out of the same occurrence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Civil suits, by and large, are contested claims among individuals. Criminal cases involve a charged offense against the whole People of the State. While the same conduct often affronts society and gives rise to claim in an individual on account of it, the considerations and purposes of the separate procedures for redressing the respective wrongs are disparate and both procedures are diminished by ignoring the differences. A litigant should not be burdened in adjudicating his civil rights according to how or whether he has satisfied the claim against him by society. Likewise the speedy determinations of society’s claims against individuals should not be influenced by a rule of civil procedure which puts a premium on the mode of response to society’s charge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beale v. Speck
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.