Wildey v. Crane’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 1932
2 federal appellate · 10 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 Byrd v. Odem · Orr v. Tanner · Backus v. Byron
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the common-law doctrine of champerty was in force in this State previous to the passage of this act, it was repealed by its passage, and no longer exists in this State. When the legislature enacted that lands in the adverse possession of another might be conveyed, and also that choses in action might be assigned, and actions maintained in the name of the assignee, such legislation virtually repealed the common law relating to champerty; and the statute above cited seems to have been passed in view of the decision of this court in Backus v. Byron, 4 Mich. 535 , and the doubts existing upon the subject, so as to settle the question in accordance with the course of legislation already enacted, and in harmony therewith. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““That all existing laws, rules, and provisions of law, restricting or controlling the right of a party to agree with an attorney, solicitor, or counsel, for his compensation, are repealed, and hereafter the measure of such compensation shall be left to the agreement, express or implied, of the parties.””
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.