Brian v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 1986
7 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 Hitt v. Herndon · Lewis v. Burglass · Wilson v. Brian · Grandeson v. International Harvester Credit Corp. · Bryson v. Bates-Crumley Chevrolet Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * Where a creditor ignores and circumvents the provisions of the law designed for his use and benefit and resorts to a conversion of the debtor's property, a certain degree of humiliation and embarrassment is experienced by the debtor. In this case, there was a clear and illegal invasion of plaintiff's rights and a taking of his property without his knowledge and consent, however, not from his own premises but from premises where he had arranged for the trucks to be kept.”
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.