Wallace v. Lackey’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 1955 · most notably Pen-Ken Gas & Oil Corp. v. Warfield Natural Gas Co. (1943), Illinois Central Railroad Company v. Ward (1931)
2 federal appellate · 25 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 Maysville & B. S. R. R. Co. v. Ball · Bamberger v. Green · Duff v. Hagins · Dennis v. Alves · Segal v. Reisert
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the record is merely silent as to some jurisdictional fact, as a want, of a summons upon some party to the suit, it will be presumed that the party was duly summoned, or else the judgment would not have been rendered.””
1 later decision 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.