Walker v. Armstrong’s Empirical Analysis
1863
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2024
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.
Relationships
Relies on Merritt v. . Seaman · Mazuzan v. Mead · Bayless v. Crany
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.
“Without examining whether it was so—or the question raised by Armstrong's counsel whether a ferry-boat may be landed at the mouth of a public highway without the consent of the owner of the soil—but for the purpose of the argument concede both these propositions to the plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ross v. Nelson
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.