Weitzel v. Rabe’s Empirical Analysis
103 U.S. 340 · 1880
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1908
2 federal appellate ·
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * Under the law the distiller must pay a tax equal to 80 per cent, of his estimated producing capacity, whether the spii’its are actually produced or not. Consequently, to save himself from taxation beyond his actual production, he must keep his distillery running all the time within 20 per cent, of its full capacity.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.