Wessels v. Beeman’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 1939
2 federal appellate · 16 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 Perrott v. Shearer · Ætna Insurance v. Harvey · Seymour v. Peters · Johnson v. Stellwagen · Wayman v. Torreyson
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the investigation of fraud, it is usual to permit a wide range of investigation of matters which will throw light upon the question at issue, but irrelevant testimony is no more admissible in trying questions of fraud than in any other investigation or trial of civil actions at law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““We have frequently held that the tendency of the testimony to prove a certain fact is exclusively for the jury, and it is error for the circuit judge to add the weight of his opinion as to what it tends to prove, when there is a dispute in the testimony upon a point.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Prentis v. Bates
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.