Weidner v. Otter’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 1960 · most notably Merrifield v. C. Hoffberger Co. (1925), Pryor's Administrator v. Otter (1937)
36 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 Hennessey v. Taylor · Baker v. . Close · Deputy v. Kimmell · Gerhard v. Ford Motor Co. · Tudor v. . Bowen
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' “An instruction in general terms is all that is needed to enable a jury of ordinary intelligence . . . to find whether he (the defendant) has exercised the required degree of care.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wener v. Pope
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.