Weil ex rel. Estate of Weil v. Seltzer’s Empirical Analysis
873 F.2d 1453 · 1989
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 17 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Federal Deposit Insurance v. Bender (1997), 193 W. Va. 119 - In Re State Public Building Asbestos Litigation (1995)
25 federal appellate · 17 district · 14 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 294
Relies on Scharffe v. Perkins · Castor v. United States · Gotthelf v. Commissioner · Hudson v. Palmer · Phelps Dodge Corp. v. AFL-CIO Joint Negotiating Committee
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“regular practice of meeting a particular kind of situation with a specific type of conduct”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[D]eference is accorded the district court because the district judge is in a position to see and hear the witnesses and is able to view the case from a perspective that an appellate court can never match.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Evidence of the habit of a person or of the routine practice of an organization, whether corroborated or not and regardless of the presence of eyewitnesses, is relevant to prove that the conduct of the person . . . on a particular occasion was in conformity with the habit . . .”
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.