Wilson v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 1966
1 federal appellate · 17 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 Claypool v. Jaqua · Miller v. Stepper · King v. King · Pulling v. Durfee · Lowe v. Lowe
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The statutory allowance to the surviving wife is a provision for her support, and is given independent of her distributive share in her husband's estate. While it cannot be treated as a debt against the estate, it is a claim to be preferred over legatees and distributees, and all other claims against the estate of her deceased husband, except debts due the United States, liens for taxes, and vendors' and landlords' liens, necessary administration expenses and expenses of last sickness and funeral.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Fourth — All allowances to the widow, wife or orphan made as provided by law shall compose the fourth class.”
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.