Walston v. Nevin’s Empirical Analysis
128 U.S. 578 · 1888
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 167 later decisions (36 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1997 · most notably Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same (1925), Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. (1911)
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 90 state decisions — followed in 26 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 Davidson v. New Orleans · Hagar v. · County of Mobile v. Kimball · Spencer v. Merchant · Stanley v. Supervisors of Albany
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 167 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the Legislature provides for notice to and hearing of each proprietor at some stage of the proceedings upon the question of what proportion of the tax shall be assessed upon his land, there is no taking of his property without due process of law.”
2 later decisions 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.