State v. Walsh’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1959 · most notably Buck v. Bell (1927), State ex inf. Hadley v. Washburn (1902)
1 federal appellate · 31 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 State v. Julow · State ex rel. Harris v. Herrmann · State ex rel. Lionberger v. Tolle · State v. Burgdoerfer
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If such an act as that being discussed can stand the test of judicial scrutiny, then the above cited provisions of section 53, aforesaid, relative to the prohibition against granting by special law any special or exclusive right, privilege or immunity will have been ordained in vain. Nay, more, if such legislation as that here presented could be sanctioned, then it would be an easy legislative task to provide for the punishment of robbery, arson, murder — indeed, the whole category of crimes — with a proviso that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prohibit or make it unlawful for any person ‘to rob, burn or murder’ ‘on the premises or within the limits or enclosure of a regular race course,’ etc.” (p. 406.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The legislature cannot take what might be termed a natural class of persons, split this class in two and then arbitrarily designate the dissevered factions, of the original unit as two classes and thereupon enact different rules for the government of each.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Buck v. Bell
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.