Weston v. Bear River’s Empirical Analysis
1855
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 1910
12 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.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"And no transfer of stock shall be /valid for any purpose whatever, except to render the person1 to whom it shall be transferred liable for the debts of the/company according to the provisions of this act, until it shgQl be entered therein as required by this section, by an entry showing to and from whom transferred.””
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.