Wilkinson v. Elliott’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2003 · most notably Norris v. Cross, Secretary of State (1909), Rumsey v. Rumsey (1939)
25 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 Vanzant v. Vanzant · Maddox v. Humphries · Brightman v. Brightman · Daniel v. . Hodges
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the petition has been filed, the action is pending, so as to charge third persons with notice of its pendency, and while pending no interest can be acquired by third persons in the subject-matter thereof as against the plaintiff’s title,” etc.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Garver v. Graham · Rumsey v. Rumsey
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.