Walker v. Junior’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 1995
4 federal appellate · 15 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 Garrett v. Cuninghame · Windham v. Windham · Ex parte Reid · Reed v. State Ex Rel. Davis · Wade v. Oates
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) Misconduct, fraud or corruption on the part of any election official, [etc.] “(2) [Ineligibility of the person whose election is contested to hold the office.] “(3) Illegal votes. “(4) The rejection of legal votes; or “(5) ... [B]ribery, intimidation or other misconduct calculated to prevent a fair, free and full exercise of the elective franchise.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Yeargan v. Allen · Ex Parte Vines
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.