Walker v. Dohan’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 1997
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 Deslix v. Jonc
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“bid for the lease, in such a case, is a premium which the bidder is willing to give for the transfer of the lease to himself, with all its obligations, as well as all the rights thereto attached, from the moment of the adjudication.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“make a sale or donation of the right, retaining himself the obligation to pay the rent,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“one of the most acute legal minds of his day,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.