Walker v. Edmonds’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 1970
13 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 Commonwealth v. Griest · Gearhart v. Dixon
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.
“"Where action is required to be taken within a certain time, the-mere failure of an officer or of a body to act within the set time is-not fatal, and the requirement as to time may be held to be directory. ” '”
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.