Wilson v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 1949 · most notably Comans v. Tapley (1911), McIver v. Norman (1948)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 21 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 Bell v. Hudson · Neppach v. Jones · Sedlak v. Sedlak · Lawrence v. Rokes · Weiss v. Bethel
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If * * * it clearly appears that lapse of time has not in fact changed the conditions and relative position of the parties, and that they are not materially impaired, and there are peculiar circumstances entitled to consideration as excusing the delay, the court will not deny the appropriate relief although a strict and unqualified application of the rule would seem to require it. Kvery case is governed chiefly by its own circumstances.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Two circumstances, always important in such cases, are the length of the delay and the nature of the acts done during the interval, which might affect either party, and cause a balance of justice or injustice in taking one course or the other, so far as relates to the remedy.””
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.