Weld v. Nichols’s Empirical Analysis
9 F.2d 977 · 1925
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1961
4 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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.
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.
“were meant to cover only fixed and definite charges applicable to all members of each particular class of membership.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.