Wilkins v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
59 U.S. 385 · 1855
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1963 · most notably Patch v. White (1886), Barber v. Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway Co. (1897)
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 15 state decisions — followed in 11 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 George Harrison v. Henry Nixon · Mann v. Mann · Trustees of the South Newmarket Methodist Seminary v. Peaslee · Frey v. Leeper
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule of law gives the estate to the heir, unless the will takes it from him; and, in order to take it from him, it must give it to some other person.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cross v. Cross
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.