Walsh v. Dahl’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 1955
7 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.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Why counsel persist in appealing cases where only fact issues are involved is an unsolved mystery. The spirit of controversy seems to be an ever-present obsession. The present appeal furnishes abundant proof of just such mental ailment.””
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.