Walker v. Coulter’s Empirical Analysis
1902
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 1934
6 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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"This is decisive of the question before us, even if we treat section 249 of the Constitution as inapplicable because of the decision of this court in the McDonald case, in which its existence was not referred to. This is an express statute passed subsequent to the allowance of the claim therein considered, which forbids exactly the thing here sought to be done."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The object of this provision was to prevent the creation of a number of small offices to be filled by the Senate and the consequent electioneering and loss of time of the Senate in filling them, and to provide offices to be filled by responsible men, to whom the General Assembly might allow a compensation sufficient to permit the employment of ample assistants."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“was incorrectly decided and would doubtless not have been so decided had the attention of the court been called to the constitutional provision.”
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.