Walker v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2011
20 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 McCall v. Superior Court · Hathaway v. Davis · De Leonis v. Etchepare · Cutting Packing Co. v. Packers' Exchange · Hale Bros. v. Milliken
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the assignor remains secondarily liable as a surety or guarantor if the assignee is found to have assumed the obligation”). 65 . First Amendment, at 10 (emphasis added). 66 . Id. 67 . Id. 68 . Cal. Civ.Code § 2832. 69 . In connection with its argument that Witco remained as a principal obligor and not a surety, Oildale argues that”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Chemtura Corp.“Whether an assignee has assumed the obligations of the contract is to be determined by the intent of the parties and may be implied from acceptance of benefits under the contract.”
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.