Wilson v. Hendrie’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 1999
14 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 Latham v. Father Divine · Anderson v. Jordan · Bullock v. Expressmen's Mutual Life Insurance · Lore v. Habermeyer · Whaley v. Avery
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a murderer will not be permitted to profit by his crime.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“‘1. The legal title does not pass to the murderer as heir or devisee. ‘2. The legal title passes to the murderer, and he may retain it in spite of his crime. ‘3. The legal title passes to the murderer, but equity will treat him as a constructive trustee of the title because of the unconscionable mode of its acquisition, and compel him to convey it to the heirs of the deceased, exclusive of the murderer.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baker v. Martin“affords a court of equity greater flexibility in arriving at a just result which does not defeat the intent of the deceased.”
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.