Weir v. Welch’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 2024
5 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 Davis v. Holbrook · Joss v. Hallett
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conceded that the legal title was in plaintiffs, and there was no evidence at all contradicting it; . . . the only evidence was that pertaining to the equitable defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the issue upon the legal cause of action alleged in the complaint should have been submitted to the jury, if there was any dispute concerning it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.