Wheeler v. Jenison’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
2
states following
April 1919
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Howard v. Patrick · Sweet v. Michigan Central Railroad · Tucker v. Mowrey · Brazee v. Bryant · Winfield v. Dodge
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““One of the principal reasons alleged on the part of the defendants for a new trial in this case is that the verdict of the jury was against the weight of the evidence. In the opinion of the court that was true.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ewing v. Lamphere
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.