Wall v. King’s Empirical Analysis
206 F.2d 878 · 1953
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 7 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably Campbell v. Superior Court (1971), John E. Raper v. David J. Lucey (1973)
11 federal appellate · 7 district · 17 state decisions — followed in 12 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343
Relies on Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization · Screws v. United States · Yakus v. United States · Shelley v. Kraemer · United States v. Classic
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have no doubt that the freedom to make use of one's own property, here a motor vehicle, as a means of getting about from place to place, whether in pursuit of business or pleasure, is a 'liberty' which under the Fourteenth Amendment cannot be denied or curtailed by a state without due process of law.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Colling v. Hjelle · Miller v. Depuy
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.