Commonwealth v. Wetherbee’s Empirical Analysis
1870
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2005 · most notably Bowers v. Lawyers Mortgage Co. (1932), Martin v. Stubbings (1888)
3 federal appellate · 57 state decisions — followed in 26 states
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[a]n agreement by which one party for a consideration (which is usually paid in money, either in one sum, or at different times during the continuance of the risk), promises to make a certain payment of money upon the destruction or injury of something in which the other party has an interest.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.