Waldrop v. Weaver’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2025
21 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 Martinez v. State · United States v. Sumitomo Marine & Fire Insurance · Dorsey v. Academy Moving & Storage, Inc. · Paul v. Paul · Caterpillar Tractor Co. v. Donahue
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'has always been the policy of our law to resolve doubts in favor of permitting parties to have their day in court on the merits of a controversy'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`shocks the conscience of the court and appears so unfair and inequitable that a reasonable person could not abide it.'”
3 later decisions 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.