Weil v. Seltzer’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 2008
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Carnegie v. United States · Scharffe v. Perkins · Castor v. United States · Gotthelf v. Commissioner · Hudson v. Palmer
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“persuaded that instructions permitting the jury to find that [Weil] was guilty of contributory negligence were not appropriate in this case and were prejudicial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the very volitional basis of the activity raises serious questions as to its invariable nature, and hence its probative value”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“adequacy of sampling and uniformity of responses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.