Weaver v. Robison’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1984 · most notably City of El Paso v. Simmons (1965), Callahan v. Giles (1941)
30 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Some may ask why the Legislature has prescribed this method of advertisement rather than the one used by the land commissioner. Some may think the latter's method the better one. Some may say there is no reason why sold land should not be offered for sale again before it has been forfeited. But, when the Legislature has spoken in plain language, there is no room for construction. Nor, under those circumstances, are the courts to be concerned with the policy of the enactment or the justice of its effect."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The general doctrine is, that as the County Court is the agent of the county, in its corporate capacity, it must conform to the mode prescribed for its action in the exercise of the powers confided to it. The prescribing of a mode of exercising a power by such subordinate agencies of the Government has often been held to be a restriction to that mode.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Canales v. Laughlin
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.