Weight v. Mulvaney’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
2 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 1993
2 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Bierbach v. Goodyear Rubber Co. · Schultz v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. · Anderson v. Sloane
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The benefit which the navigator is entitled to claim by reason of his paramount right is, we apprehend, that, when the two rights necessarily conflict, the inferior must yield to the superior right.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bishop v. Baldwin
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.