Walker v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
139 F. 409 · 1905
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1997 · most notably Utah Power Light Company v. United States No 202 United States (1917), United States v. Dunn (1925)
16 federal appellate · 5 district · 2 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 Sinking-Fund Cases v. United States Central Pacific Railroad Company · Davis v. Gray · The United States v. Don Fernando De La Maza Arredondo · McElrath v. United States · Cooke v. United States
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"When the sovereign comes into court to assert a pecuniary demand against the citizen, the court has authority, and is under duty, to withhold relief to the sovereign, except upon terms which do justice to the citizen or subject, as determined by the jurisdiction of the forum in like subject-matter between man and man.””
4 later decisions 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.