Riley v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 1991
24 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.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Upon this subject the doctrine is now firmly established in equity that she may bestow her separate property, by appointment or otherwise, upon her husband, as well as upon a stranger; but at the same time courts of equity examine every such transaction between husband and wife with an anxious watchfulness and caution, and dread of undue influence."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bohn v. Bohn
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.