Wicks v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 1906
1 federal appellate · 5 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A party is held obligated to do that which is the legal effect of the instrument he executes. The rule is as fixed and clear for married women as for any other persons. When they sign promises to pay, the law holds that they act in good faith, and that they intend to do what they have promised. It considers that instrument a válid instrument, and as it can be held valid only because enforceable against her separate estate it enforces it against such estate.” (Wicks v. Mitchell, 9 Kan. 80, 89 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harrington v. Lowe
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.