Walnut v. Wade’s Empirical Analysis
103 U.S. 683 · 1880
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1990 · most notably Field v. Clark (1892), David Lupton's Sons Company v. Automobile Club of America (1912)
19 federal appellate · 35 state decisions — followed in 21 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
Relies on Norris v. Jackson · Town of Coloma v. Eaves · Town of South Ottawa v. Perkins · William Wallace v. Corry M'Connell · Gardner v. The Collector
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The plaintiff, therefore, being a bona fide holder, was not bound to look beyond the legislative act and the recitals in the bonds.” (p. 695.)”
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.