Welch v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 2008
2 federal appellate · 7 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 Claim of Dependents of Marks v. Gray · Robins Silk Manufacturing Co. v. Consolidated Piece Dye Works · Gozdonovic v. Pleasant Hills Realty Co. · Clawson v. . Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Co. · Holland v. Konda
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is true that some of the foregoing evidentiary matters are disputed, but as we 'will discuss later our review is to determine whether the evidence, if believed, was substantial.””
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.