Weaver v. Shipley’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 1961
2 federal appellate · 22 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.
Relationships
Relies on Baldwin v. Kerlin · Lush v. Druse · Board of Commissioners v. Shipley · Morrison v. Herrick · Pulse v. Miller
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the language of Berkshire, J., in Swales v. Jackson, 126 Ind. 282 , the appellees having ‘entered into possession of the real estate under the contract, and having made lasting and valuable improvements, it would be inequitable and a fraud to withhold the title.’ ””
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.