Silvers v. Welch’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Norman v. First Bank & Trust, Bryan (1977), Kendall Builders, Inc. v. Chesson (2004)
2 federal appellate · 33 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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no statement of facts in the record, and, of course, in the absence thereof, no challenge could be made of this fact finding.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Holmes v. Lawrence“A family is not entitled to two homesteads at the same time.”
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.