Wright v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1875
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 1965
14 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.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The demurrer of Whitaker, which does not appear to have been disposed of before the final healing, should not have been permitted to be filed. Claiming to have an interest in the litigation, he was permitted to become a party that he might bring such interest before the court, which he could do by cross-bill, but in no other way.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Simpson v. Hillis
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.