Weaver v. Ashcroft’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 1965
13 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether the sheriff wrongfully took possession of the entire stock of goods, was, we think, mainly a question of fact. If he did, and the conversion was complete, the fact that he afterwards tendered back the goods, or a part thereof, does not relieve him from full responsibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wallace v. Burson
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.