Marksberry v. Weir’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 1961
15 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 Triggs v. Sun Printing & Publishing Ass'n · Axton Fisher Tobacco Co. v. Evening Post Co. · Tanner v. Stevenson · Spears v. McCoy · Pennsylvania Iron Works Co. v. Vogt Machine Co.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Furthermore, mitigating facts may be shown under the general issue, because they would tend to negative the charge of malice and define the extent of actual damages done to the plaintiff.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Grief
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.