Wiggle v. Owen’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 1971
4 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 Hardy v. Gholson · Brown v. Mullins · Wiggle v. Owen
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any other doctrine applied to tbe chancery, tbe circuit, and tbe probate courts would overturn settled practice. It could not be predicated of a judgment or decree, when it became final.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beard v. McLain““After tbe term had elapsed tbe power of tbe court over final decrees rendered at that term ceases. Tbe only further remedy is by bill of review, or appeal, or .writ of error.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beard v. McLain
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.