Commonwealth v. Weissinger’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 1950
20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A writ of prohibition is an order of the circuit court to an inferior court of limited jurisdiction, prohibiting it from proceeding in a matter out of its jurisdiction.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hall v. Hall · Wilson v. Dean““This section was designed to supplement, but not to supersede, other provisions authorizing motions for a new trial and allowing appeals, and can only be invoked by a party when the other remedies are not available.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fillhardt v. Schmidt
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.