Weeks v. Scharer’s Empirical Analysis
129 F. 333 · 1904
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 1920
8 federal appellate ·
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 Northern Pac Co v. Peterson · New England Railroad v. Conroy · Alaska Treadwell Gold Min. Co. v. Whelan · Central Railroad v. Keegan · Martin v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"This matter may be dismissed from further consideration with the observation that the attention and action of the court were at once invoiced, and the court promptly sustained the objection and directed the jury to disregard the improper statement.””
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.