Walsh v. MacHlin’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2005 · most notably Thompson v. McNeill (1990), Jaworski v. Kiernan (1997)
3 federal appellate · 23 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 Stober v. Embry · Toohey v. Webster · Biskup Ex Rel. Biskup v. Hoffman · Povanda v. Powers · Everett v. . Goodwin
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under the circumstances the defendant was not under a duty to warn the plaintiff that he was going to strike the hall, for the plaintiff knew it and oral or audible warning would have been superfluous.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kelly v. Forester“[i]t is undisputed that the duty to the plaintiff which rested upon the defendant while playing [golf] was the usual one of reasonable care under the circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.