Walsh v. Mayer’s Empirical Analysis
111 U.S. 31 · 1884
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2019 · most notably Union Tool Co. v. Wilson (1922), Walker v. Dun (1887)
13 federal appellate · 26 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Pritchard Ex'X v. Norton · Barnet v. National Bank · Driesbach v. National Bank · 15 La. App. 393 - Peyronnin v. Riley
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he provisions requiring it to be asserted in a particular mode and within a fixed time, are conditions and qualifications attached to the right itself, and do not form a part of the law of the remedy. If it is not asserted within the permitted period, it ceases to exist and cannot be claimed or enforced in any form.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We think you will run no risk in that time, as the property would be worth the amount due you if the building was to bum down.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shepherd v. Thompson
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.