Weber v. Laidler’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2021
22 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 Dickerson v. Bridges · Orr v. Stewart · Kirkaldie v. Larrabee · Spiess v. Neuberg · Camp v. Grider
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No lands acquired under the provisions of this chapter shall in any event become liable to the satisfaction of any debt contracted prior to the issuing of the patent therefor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sprinkle v. West““Thus, it appears that the overwhelming weight of authority is in favor of sustaining mortgages executed prior to the issuance of a patent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.