Bender v. Weber’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently September 1988 · most notably Hogsett v. Hanna (1936), Walsh v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. (1932)
35 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 Buesching v. St. Louis Gaslight Co. · Edwards v. New York & Harlem Railroad · Carleton v. Franconia Iron & Steel Co. · Jennings v. . Van Schaick · Bassett v. City of St. Joseph
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The courtyard was in no just sense a public highway but was private inclosed ground devoted to the convenience of defendants' tenants and tenements and no express or implied invitation was extended to the general public to use it as a highway.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mahnken v. Gillespie
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.