Fire Ass'n v. Weathered’s Empirical Analysis
62 F.2d 78 · 1932
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 1981
18 federal appellate · 2 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 Teese v. Huntingdon · Fire Ass'n of Philadelphia v. Weathered
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.
“* * * It is well settled that such evidence is admissible for purposes of impeachment, and whether the circumstance of the conviction was such that the fact ceased to have probative value was a question addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court. That discretion was not abused by the admission of this evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is well settled that the prior commission of a felony by a witness may be proved for the effect it may have upon his credibility, and that record proof is unnecessary where such witness on cross-examination admits the fact of his conviction. But with the lapse of time proof of this kind becomes more and more unsatisfactory and unreliable until at last it becomes wholly immaterial. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sibley v. Jeffreys
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.