Samuels v. Weikel’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 1978
7 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 Durham v. Elliott · Hudson v. Scottish Union & National Insurance · Kalfus v. Davie's · Holzknecht v. Louisville Deutsche Scheutzen Gesselschoft · Davie's v. City of Louisville
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. a judgment is erroneous unless it is supported by the pleadings, and by that it is meant unless the averments of the pleadings are such as authorize the rendition of the judgment. Another familiar rule in this jurisdiction is that a written exhibit, upon which a petition or pleading is based, if filed as a part of it, must prevail as against the averments of the petition where there is a conflict between the two. (Citing cases).”
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.