Wilson v. Kane’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably Miller v. Miller (1998), Nealis v. Baird (1999)
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Allen v. McCurry · Montana v. United States · Migra v. Warren City School District Board of Education · Cromwell v. County of Sac · United States v. Mendoza
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) ascertaining whether decedent died testate or intestate, and if testate, (2) what testamentary disposition, if any, may be admitted to probate, (8) the administration of the estate's assets and (4) the final account and distribution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The general rule against splitting a cause of action recognizes an exception where ... 'formal barriers existed against full presentation of [the] claim in [the] first action.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The District Court shall have unlimited original jurisdiction of all justiciable matters....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.