Weiermueller v. Scullin’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently March 1976 · most notably Lieber v. Lieber (1911), Elsea v. Smith (1918)
44 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 Meier v. Thieman · Banking House of Wilcoxson & Co. v. Rood · Curd v. Brown · Wade v. Hardy · Bates v. Forcht
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no reason for the rule except the cold mandate of the statute, and with that this court has nothing to do except to give it force and effect as we find it when presented to us.”
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.