Berry v. Weeks’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 1957
23 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 Jones v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. · Fisher v. O'Brien · Giles v. Ternes · Rhoades v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. · Carlgren v. Saindon
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Consistent special findings control th^ general verdict when contrary thereto but when they are inconsistent with one another — some showing a right to a verdict and others showing the contrary — the case is left in the condition of really being undecided and a new trial should be granted.” (Syl. ¶ 2.)”
2 later decisions 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.