Felch v. Weare’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
2
states following
January 1954
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Edgerly v. Concord · Gross v. Portsmouth · Doolittle v. Walpole · Wakefield v. Newport
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“independent public officers whose duties are prescribed by law, and not by the municipality which elects them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moulton v. Beals
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.