Weiss v. Stearn’s Empirical Analysis
265 U.S. 242 · 1924
Citation profile
263 federal appellate · 36 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 556 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2014 · most notably New Colonial Ice Co. v. Helvering (1934), Commissioner v. Hansen (1959)
263 federal appellate · 36 district · 23 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Eisner v. Macomber · Gould v. Gould · Towne v. Eisner · United States v. Phellis
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 556 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
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11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a thing really different from what he theretofore had.”
6 later decisions 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.