Walcott v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably 24 Cal. 2d 81 - Lawless v. Calaway (1944), Loral Corp. v. Moyes (1985)
38 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Norton v. Shelby Co State of Tennessee · State v. Carroll · People v. White · Fowler v. Bebee · Petersilea v. Stone
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(3) Under color of a known election or appointment, void because the officer was not eligible, or because there was a want of power in the electing or appointing body, or by reason of some defect or irregularity in its exercise; such ineligibility, want of power, or defect being unknown to the public.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“One whose acts, though not those of a lawful officer, the law, upon principles of policy and justice, will hold valid so far as they involve the interests of the public and third persons, where the duties of the office were exercised:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Before it [the writ of prohibition] should issue, it must appear that the petitioner has applied to the inferior tribunal for relief.””
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.