Wetherly v. Straus’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently December 2009 · most notably Moore v. Copp (1897), Estate of Yoell (1913)
2 federal appellate · 30 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 Dodge v. Meyer · Amador Canal & Mining Co. v. Mitchell
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Fraud is never 1o be presumed, and. whenever it constitutes an element of a cause of action or of a defense which is of an affirmative nature, and invoked as conferring a right against the opposite party, it must be alleged.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hall v. McKinnon
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.