Wilson v. Holt’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently September 1976 · most notably Freeman v. Hall (1970), Wilkerson v. Wilkerson (1935)
1 federal appellate · 40 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Humes v. O'Bryan & Washington · Carroll v. Carroll · Preston & Stetson v. McMillan · Matthews v. McDade · Ohio Life Insurance & Trust Co. v. Ledyard
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.
““Such is the rule, unless a name is shown to be very common in a country, or unless there be other facts which throw confusion on the supposed identity. Whart. on Ev. § 701.” Wilson v. Holt, supra.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Davis
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.