Welch v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
97 U.S. 541 · 1878
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1979 · most notably Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad (1916), Choate v. Trapp (1912)
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 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 Ex parte Yerger · Salt Company v. East Saginaw · Thomas Beals v. Felicite Hale
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.