Yeiser v. Dysart’s Empirical Analysis
267 U.S. 540 · 1925
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 5 district · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2005 · most notably Nebbia v. People of State of New York (1934), West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish (1937)
14 federal appellate · 5 district · 74 state decisions — followed in 21 states
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 Adkins v. Children's Hospital of the District of Columbia Same · Chas. Wolff Packing Co. v. Court of Industrial Relations · Calhoun v. Massie
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“improvident contracts, in the interest not only of themselves and their families but of the public.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only such sum could be demanded for services in bringing a suit under the workers' compensation act as the court should allow, and a contract for other and further pay was void.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““When we add the considerations that an attorney practices under a license from the State and that the subject-matter is a right created by statute it is obvious that the State may attach such conditions to the license in respect of such matters as it believes to be necessary in order to make it a public good.””
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.