Wetzel v. Ohio’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2022 · most notably Raymond J. Ryan and Helen Ryan v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue (1977), Poe v. John Deere Co. (1982)
29 federal appellate · 20 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 American Tobacco Co. v. United States · Pollard v. United States · United States v. Johnson · St. Pierre v. United States · Newton v. Consolidated Gas 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no doubt that, as a general rule, an appeal does not lie from a decree solely for costs .... [This rule] is easily deducible from the discretion vested in the trial court .... But the rule is not absolute and should not be enforced when the trial court assumes the power to assess ... costs ... not legally assessable as such.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“* * * decedent's wife and administratrix has a sufficient interest in protecting his estate from unlawful penalties to be substituted as a party and maintain this appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.