Walton Trust Co. v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
2 F.2d 342 · 1924
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1969
13 federal appellate · 1 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 Stewart v. Sonneborn · Stubbs v. Mulholland · Brown v. Selfridge · Burke v. Watts · Hanser v. Bieber
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But there was also abundant evidence tending to show that Taylor was, and for many years had been, a resident of Lincoln, Neb.; was in the real estate business there, and bore a good reputation; that he owned property, both there and in Kansas City; that he had a wife and family; that he frequently came to Kansas City; transacted business there, and was well known by real estate men in that city.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Defendants could not deliberately refrain from trying to learn facts readily ascertainable, and afterward successfully contend that the half facts in their possession were a sufficient basis for probable cause; nor would the imparting of such half facts to an attorney form a sufficient foundation for the defense `advice of counsel.'”
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.