Weaver v. Wood’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
1 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2018
1 district · 18 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 Eyal v. Helen Broadcasting Corp. · Eustace v. Dickey · Jessie v. Boynton · Burbank v. Burbank · Dillaway v. Burton
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[M]embership in a public charity, alone, is [in]sufficient to give standing to pursue claims that a charitable organization has been mismanaged or that its officials have acted ultra vires.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hatt v. McGraw“In the case of a private trust, only a named beneficiary, or one suing on his or her behalf, can maintain an action to enforce a trust”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“but only where the plaintiff asserts interests in such organizations which are distinct from those of the general public.”
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.