Weaver v. Schaaf’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 2006
10 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 Benton v. Maryland · Green v. United States · Ball v. United States · Ex parte Lange · Waller v. Florida
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a secret concert of action between two or more for the promotion of some fraudulent purpose.” Weaver v. Schaaf, 520 S.W.2d 58, 66 (Mo. banc 1975) (quoting W. E. Bowen Improvement Co. v. Van Hafften, 209 Mo.App. 629 , 238 S.W. 147, 149 (1922)). Collusion is also defined as”
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.