State v. Walsen’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 1962
16 state decisions — followed in 10 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 North v. Peters · Perley v. County of Muskegon · Renfroe v. Colquitt · Rock v. Stinger · Wilson v. Wichita County
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““From what has been said, it is apparent that both the legislative and judicial departments of the government have construed the Constitution as requiring additional legislation in order that the state could recover interest. This construction has, from the first, been adopted -by the officers of the executive department and successive governors have, in their public messages, urged upon the legislative department the necessity for suitable legislation upon the subject.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Schamber““That this omission was purposely made is, apparent from the circumlocution employed to cover all other offices and all other public funds.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Schamber““The measure of the liability of the officer seems to be the distinction upon which all or nearly all adjudicated cases may be harmonized.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Schamber
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.