Walker v. Sellers’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably 252 Cal. App. 2d 208 - Bank of Am. Nat'l Trust & Sav. Ass'n v. Cranston (1967), State v. Tyler County State Bank (1925)
29 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Lummus Cotton Gin Co. v. Walker · National Commercial Bank v. Miller & Co. · Clark v. Chicago Title & Trust Co.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As between the bank and the payee a cashier’s check is, in legal effect, the same as a certificate of deposit or a certified check. Clark v. Chicago, etc., Co., [ 186 Ill. 440 57 N.E. 1061 (1900) ]; Lummus Cotton Gin Co. v. Walker, 195 Ala. 552 , 70 South. 754 [ (1916) ]. “Certainly the purpose in each case is the same, that is, to enable the holder to use the check as money; and when a check is certified it ceases to possess the character, or to perform the functions, of a check, but represents so much money on deposit, payable to the holder on demand. National Com. Bank v. Miller, 77 Ala. 168, 175 , 54 Am. Rep. 50 [(1884)]. ‘Such a deposit stands upon exactly the same ground as any other.’ Id.””
2 later decisions 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.