Weeks v. Behrend’s Empirical Analysis
135 F.2d 258 · 1943
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 2000 · most notably Matthews v. Walter (1975), Standard Dredging Corp. v. Henderson (1945)
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 901 · 33 U.S.C. § 902
Relies on Parks v. Parks · Nelson's Case · Newman's Case · London Guarantee & Accident Co. v. Hoage · T. J. Moss Tie Co. v. Tanner
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The term ‘widow’ includes only the decedent’s wife living with or dependent for support upon him at the time of his death; or living apart for justifiable cause or by reason of his desertion at such time.””
2 later decisions 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.