Weller v. Wheelock’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 1938
8 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 Howard v. Patrick · State ex rel. National Bond & Security Co. v. Krahmer · Todd v. Boards of Election Commissioners · Davis v. Michigan Central Railroad · Heineman v. Schloss
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ It is not necessary in this case to determine whether, in so far as the amendment of 1903 attempted to confer a right upon another class, namely, purchasers under tax titles, it was ineffective in that it impaired the obligation of contracts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Curry v. Backus
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.