Weightman v. Hadley’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably 32 Cal. 4th 236 - People v. Barragan (2004), 51 Cal. 2d 602 - People v. Carswell (1959)
43 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 Estate of Lances · 45 Cal. 2d 811 - Seneris v. Haas · Raber v. Tumin · Mattingly v. Pennie · People v. Arnold
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We think that when it is said an unqualified reversal ‘remands the ease for a new trial,’ it means a new trial as defined by section 656 of the Code of Civil Procedure, i.e., ‘a re-examination of an issue of fact.’ ””
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.