Walker v. Jameson’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently February 2002 · most notably Railroad Commission v. Grand Trunk Western Railroad (1913), Selvage v. Talbott (1911)
6 federal appellate · 61 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Thorpe v. Rutland & Burlington Railroad · Town of Lake View v. Rose Hill Cemetery Co. · Baumgartner v. Hasty · Boehm v. Mayor of Baltimore · Lewisville Natural Gas Co. v. State ex rel. Reynolds
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whatever else it may he, it is certainly not an assessment. It has not a single element of an assessment, for the reasons — First, that, except hy the voluntary act of the householder, nothing is to he paid at all; second, no definite amount, in any event, is to he paid; third, nothing is made a charge upon the property. The whole arrangement is simply a provision hy the Ordinance-First, that garbage shall he collected and carted through the streets only by the licensed agent of the city; second, that parties producing the garbage needing to he thus carted away shall place the same in proper vessels, convenient for the removal hy such agent; and, third, that such agent shall charge not exceeding the price named for removing the same. It is no more an assessment than is the provision of the ordinance fixing the rate of payment for gas or water, or street-car fare.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“No householder is required to have garbage removed or pay for its removal.... This ordinance and contract simply provide that if he does produce garbage which has to be carted through the streets, the city or its agent, the contractor, shall do the work at his expense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is within the general power of a government to preserve and promote the public welfare even at the expense of private rights.”
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.