Walker v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
167 U.S. 57 · 1897
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 10 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1995 · most notably Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Mottley (1908), Minnesota v. Northern Securities Co. (1904)
5 federal appellate · 10 district · 3 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Postal Telegraph Cable Co v. State of Alabama · Chappell v. Waterworth
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A case not depending upon the citizenship of the parties, not otherwise specially provided for, cannot be removed from a state court to the circuit court of the United States, as one arising under the constitution, laws, or treaties of the United States, unless that appears in the plaintiff’s own statement.””
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.