Walker v. Devinney’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
July 2003
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Smith v. Board of Education · Duffee v. Jones · Hines v. Etheridge
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Sheriff of Fayette County is an officer of a political subdivision of this State”
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.