Anderson v. Walter’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 1942 · most notably Horvath v. National Mortgage Co. (1927), First National Bank of Parkersburg v. Johns (1883)
25 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No man has a right to suppose that a crime is about to be committed, or that he is going to be defrauded by having a paper of an entirely different tenor substituted in the place of one he has just heard read and is about to sign, nor that a negotiable promissory note will be lurking in the depths of an instrument like those referred to. And he is not therefore required to take any steps to guard against such a contingency.””
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.