Irwin v. Weikel’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably 204 Pa. Super. 500 - Smith v. Lenchner (1964), Tri-State Roofing Co. v. Simon (1958)
25 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 Rhodes v. Terheyden · Buehler v. United States Fashion Plate Co. · King Et Al., Appellants, v. Brillhart · Parry v. First National Bank · Franklin Sugar Refining Co. v. Lykens Mercantile Co.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To entitle one to judgment for want of a sufficient affidavit of defense, his statement of claim must aver, in clear and concise terms, all facts essential to support the judgment asked; plaintiff’s declaration must be such that ‘judgment may be taken and liquidated upon the data which it furnishes’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The true rule would seem to be that formal defects in a plaintiff’s statement are waived, while substantial defects therein are not, by ignoring the provisions of the statute above referred to and filing an affidavit of defense to the merits.””
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.