Walton v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 federal appellate · 16 state decisions

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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is a settled principle that no hill of exceptions is valid which is not for matter excepted to at the trial. We do not mean to say that it is necessary (and, in point of practice, we know it to he otherwise) that the hill of exceptions should be formally drawn and signed, before the trial is at an end. It will be sufficient if the exceptions be taken at the trial, and noted by the court, with the requisite certainty; and it may afterwards, during the term, according to the rules of the court, be reduced to form and signed by the judge; and so, in fact, is the general practice.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Johnson v. Garber

2. “But in all those cases the bill of exceptions is signed nunc pro tune, and it purports on its face to be the same as if actually reduced to form and signed pending the trial. And,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hunnicutt v. Peyton