Weitz v. MacKenzie’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently July 2009 · most notably Tandra S. v. Tyrone W. (1994), Hoile v. State (2008)
58 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 Tasea Investment Corp. v. Dale · Grantham v. Board of County Commissioners · Seale v. Nichols · A. S. Abell Co. v. Skeen · Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore, Inc. v. Haywood
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““irregularity, in the contemplation of the Rule, usually means irregularity of process or procedure ... and not an error, which in legal parlance, generally connotes a departure from truth or accuracy of which a defendant had notice and could have challenged.””
8 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.