Weimer v. Bunbury’s Empirical Analysis
1874
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2019 · most notably Spencer v. Merchant (1888), Public Clearing House v. Coyne (1904)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 45 state decisions — followed in 26 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.
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is nothing in these words (‘due process of law’), however, that necessarily implies that due process of law must be judicial process. Much of the process by means of which the government is carried on and the order of society maintained is purely executive or administrative. Temporary deprivations of liberty or property must often take place through the action of ministerial or executive officers or functionaries, or even of private parties, where it has never been supposed that the common law would afford redress.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the owner of stray beasts might be deprived of his ownership by ex parte proceedings not of a judicial character,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Daniels v. . Homer
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.