Wilson v. Scroggs’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
3
states following
February 1979
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Carlton v. People · University of Illinois v. Spalding · Brindisi v. People · Cook v. Strother · 217 Ill. App. 479 - Cook v. Moecker
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The true rule is that, when a writing in issue is claimed on the one hand and denied on the other to be the writing of a particular person, any other writing [of that person’s] may be admitted in evidence for the mere purpose of comparison with the writing in dispute, whether the latter is susceptible of or supported by direct proof or not; but, before any such writing shall be admissible for such purpose, its genuineness must be found as a preliminary fact by the presiding judge, upon clear and undoubted evidence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miller v. Miller
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.