Weaver v. Hollis’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably 7 Ill. 2d 106 - Bradley v. Fox (1955), Ford v. Ford (1986)
4 federal appellate · 40 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 Riggs v. . Palmer · New York Mutual Life Insurance v. Armstrong · Mutual Life Ins Co of New York v. Armstrong · Perry v. Strawbridge · Slocum v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“". . . The common law is the base upon which all of the laws of this State have been constructed, and when our courts are called upon to construe a statute, — when they are called upon to ascertain and declare the legal effect and meaning of a legislative enactment, — they must read the statute in the light of the common law. Cloverdale Homes v. Town of Cloverdale , 182 Ala. 419 , 62 So. 712 , 47 L.R.A., N.S., 607. `The presumption is that the legislature does not intend to make any alteration in the law beyond what it explicitly declares, either in express terms or by unmistakable implication, and that it does not intend to overthrow fundamental principles, infringe rights, or depart from a general system of law without expressing its intention with irresistible clearness.' Duncan v. Rudulph , 245 Ala. 175 , 16 So.2d 313 , 314."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“A reasonable interpretation of [the statute providing for a husband to inherit property from his deceased wife], in the light of the common-law principle that no person can take advantage of his own wrong; that the law permits no one to profit by his own crime, precludes a felonious killer from taking from his murdered spouse.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he basic reasons behind the denial of the right of the husband to inherit from the wife whom he has feloniously killed is so compelling, we now declare that in this jurisdiction he cannot do so.”
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.