Wilhite v. H.E. Butt Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Federal Express Corp. v. Dutschmann (1993), Cain v. Hearst Corp. (1994)
4 federal appellate · 25 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 Nixon v. Mr. Property Management Co. · City of Houston v. Clear Creek Basin Authority · Downer v. Aquamarine Operators, Inc. · Roberts v. Louisiana · North East Independent School District v. Aldridge
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a matter of law, a corporation or other company cannot conspire with itself, no matter how many of its agents participate in the complained-of action.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“is generally associated with either a physical invasion of a person's property or eavesdropping on another's conversation with the aid of wiretaps, microphones or spying.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“intrusion upon the plaintiff's seclusion or solitude, or into his private affairs.”
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.