Weber v. Kline’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 1982 · most notably Chapple's Estate (1938), Dzierski Estate (1972)
32 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 Yeager's Estate · Lawrence's Estate · Glenn v. Trees · Reese v. Philadelphia Trust, Safe Deposit & Insurance · Miller v. Central Trust & Savings 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The findings of a chancellor, based on evidence and approved by the court below, must be given the same weight as the verdict of a jury and will not be disturbed on appeal”
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.