Wilkinson v. Roper’s Empirical Analysis
1883
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably Ex Parte Burch (1938), Faulk & Co. v. Hobbie Grocery Co. (1912)
41 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 Chambers v. Ringstaff · Continental Life Insurance v. Webb · Peeples v. Stolla · Gilman, Sons & Co. v. New Orleans & Selma Railroad · Collins v. Whigham
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Ariewed in the light of these writings, it would be very difficult to work a conditional sale out of this transaction.””
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.