Weber v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
243 federal appellate · 138 district · 672 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,490 later decisions (116 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably Roe v. Wade (1973), City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center (1985)
243 federal appellate · 138 district · 672 state decisions — followed in 48 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.
Relationships
Relies on Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Dandridge v. Williams · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · Yick Wo v. Hopkins
Cited together with Levy v. Louisiana Ex Rel. Charity Hospital · Gomez v. Perez · Reed v. Reed · Trimble v. Gordon · Dandridge v. Williams
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 1,490 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“visiting this condemnation on the head of an infant is illogical and unjust.”
44 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“requires, at a minimum, that a statutory classification bear some rational relationship to a legitimate state purpose.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e are mindful that States have frequently drawn arbitrary lines in workmen's compensation and wrongful death statutes to facilitate potentially difficult problems of proof. Nothing in our decision would impose on state court systems a greater burden in this regard. By limiting recovery to dependents of the deceased, Louisiana substantially lessens the possible problems of locating illegitimate children and of determining uncertain claims of parenthood. Our decision fully respects Louisiana's choice on this matter. It will not expand claimants for workmen's compensation beyond those in a direct blood and dependency relationship with the deceased and avoids altogether diffuse questions of affection and affinity which pose difficult probative problems. Our ruling requires equality of treatment between two classes of persons the genuineness of whose claims the State might in any event be required to determine.”
6 later decisions 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.