Walker v. Lane’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently July 1976
3 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 Rogers v. Trevathan · Mayo v. Tudor's Heirs · Pryor v. Pendleton · Mitchell v. Porter · Davis v. Mitchell
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Walker, the original lessee, had the right to procure the drilling of a well by some person other than himself, and the performance of the contract he obtained from Whiteside [his assignee] would have inured to his benefit in preserving the lease in full force and effect as to the 800 acres retained by him, .”
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.