Weisner v. Weisner’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 1952
11 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 Keeler v. Lauer · Reville v. Dubach · Sill v. Sill · Jack v. Hooker · Buchanan v. Gibbs
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Nevertheless it cannot be thought the legislature intended that a wife, under the stress of expected widowhood and actuated by a desire to please her husband . . . should be held bound by such consent when it fairly appears that she did not understand its effect upon her property rights.” (p. 356.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Sechler
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.