Waldron v. Waldron’s Empirical Analysis
156 U.S. 361 · 1895
Citation profile
137 federal appellate · 4 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 231 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1995 · most notably Burgett v. Texas (1967), Taylor v. United States (1932)
137 federal appellate · 4 district · 47 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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 Hopt v. People · Michigan Insurance Bank v. Eldred · Hunnicutt v. Peyton · Castle v. Bullard
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 231 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The curative effect of the correction, in any particular instance, depends on whether ■ or not, considering the whole case and its particular circumstances, the error committed appears to have been of so serious a nature that it must have affected the minds of the jury despite the correction by the court.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * But yet there may be instances where such a strong impression has been made upon the minds of the jury by illegal and improper testimony, that its subsequent withdrawal will not remove the effect caused by its admission, and in that case the general objection may avail on appeal or writ of error. * * * ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is equally well established that the assertion by counsel, in argument, of facts, no evidence whereof is properly before the jury, in such a way as to seriously prejudice the opposing party, is, when duly excepted to, also ground”
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.