Wanamaker v. . Weaver’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently December 1973 · most notably Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin, Krim & Ballon v. Lewis S. Rosenstiel (1973), D. H. Holmes Co. v. Morris (1937)
12 federal appellate · 78 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedWanamaker v. Weaver
Relationships
Relies on Hatch v. . Leonard · Keller v. . Phillips · Cromwell v. Benjamin · Clark v. Cox · Bloomingdale v. Brinckerhoff
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If a wife is going to a merchant to trade, with whom she is acquainted, and with whom she has been accustomed to trade upon the credit of her husband, she may still continue to do so until the husband gives notice prohibiting the merchant from longer giving credit to her.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.