Wahl v. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently July 2002 · most notably Wipfler v. Basler (1952), Johnson v. Flex-O-Lite Manufacturing Corporation (1958)
2 federal appellate · 39 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 Wahl v. Cunningham · McCormick v. City of St. Louis · Doe Run Lead Co. v. Maynard · Andrus v. Business Men's Accident Ass'n of America · Walser v. Wear
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must fall within the spirit as well as the letter of the reference law before a person can be deprived of his right to a trial by jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In a case on trial in any court its records are actually or constructively before the judge”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lammers v. Greulich
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.