Weber v. Doust’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2021
5 federal appellate · 15 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 Lindsay v. Lindsay · Ludlow v. Rector, Church Wardens & Vestrymen of St. John's Church · Gomez v. Scanlan · Ex parte Ah Peen · Lovell v. House of the Good Shepherd
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.
““The parents of the child, if living, and their residence is known, or its legal guardian, if there be one or if there is neither parent nor guardian, or if his or her residence is not known, then some relative, if there be one, and his residence is known, shall be notified of the proceedings; and in any case the judge shall appoint some suitable person or association to act in behalf of the child.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““as to detention pending an investigation. It will defeat the law entirely to say that a child cannot be detained for a time under proper, wholesome and helpful surroundings, such as were afforded in this case, and innocent and unoffending children, and those who are simply mischievous, will be subjected to the stigma which attaches to criminal suspects.” Weber v. Doust, 81 Wash. 668, 675 , 143 Pac. 148 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weber v. Doust
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.