Weade v. Dichmann, Wright & Pugh, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
337 U.S. 801 · 1949
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 9 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 137 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2018 · most notably Byrd v. Blue Ridge Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. (1958), Neely v. Martin K. Eby Construction Co., Inc. (1967)
48 federal appellate · 9 district · 5 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedDichmann, Wright & Pugh, Inc. v. Weade (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Atkinson · Cone v. West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co. · Cosmopolitan Shipping Co. v. McAllister · Brady v. Roosevelt Steamship Co. · Globe Liquor Co. v. San Roman
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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“modified a Court of Appeals decision directing entry of judgment n.o.v. because there were 'suggestions in the complaint and evidence' of an alternative theory of liability which had not been passed upon by the jury and therefore which might justify the grant of a new trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the duty of a common carrier ... is to transport for hire whoever employs it.”
1 later decision 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.