Patterson v. Weaver’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently August 2008 · most notably 418 So. 2d 89 - Boshell v. Keith (1982), Wilkerson v. Wilkerson (1935)
55 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 Snodgrass v. Snodgrass · Copeland v. Warren · Veitch v. Woodward Iron Co. · Fowler v. Alabama Iron & Steel Co. · Kidd v. Browne
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“from delay, any conclusion the court may arrive at must at best be conjectural, and the original transactions have become so obscured by lapse of time, loss of evidence, and death of parties as to render it difficult if not impossible to do justice.”
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.