Walker v. Eckhardt’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2017
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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 Rowan v. Rosenthal · Wilson v. Haun · Mitchell v. Derby Oil Co. · Banks v. Everest · Prewett v. Sholl
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A demurrer to the evidence of plaintiff should not be sustained unless the court is able to say that admitting every fact that is proven which is favorable to the plaintiff, and admitting every fact that the jury might fairly and logically infer from the evidence favorable to the plaintiff, still, the plaintiff has failed to make out some one or more of the material facts of his case.” (Syl.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rusco v. DeGood · Davies v. Shawver
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.