Nelson v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1985
4 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 Kelly v. Kelly · Smith v. Smith · Martin v. Schwing Lumber & Shingle Co. · Barnes v. Barnes · Russo v. Russo
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This expense to her was provoked by the unlawful and unwarranted application for the attachment by the plaintiff. We believe this to be the only element of damages shown by the defendant. She is awarded the sum of $400, as attorney’s fees.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nelson v. Walker“Whatever is done in contravention of a prohibitory law, is void, although the nullity be not formally directed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Holliday v. Holliday
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.