Weeks v. Bridgman’s Empirical Analysis
159 U.S. 541 · 1895
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1955 · most notably United States v. Morgan (1939), Atlantic Coast Line Co v. State of Florida State of Florida (1935)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 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 Ex parte Lange · Noble v. Union River Logging Railroad · Ewell v. Daggs · Hastings Co v. Whitney · Kansas Pacific Railway Co. v. Dunmeyer
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is rarely that things are wholly void, and without force and effect as to all persons and for all purposes, and incapable of being made otherwise. Things are voidable, which are valid and effectual until they are voided by some act; while things are often said to be void which are without validity until confirmed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Unkle v. Wills
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.