Walton v. Baird’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2011
19 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 Raheb v. Lemenski · Round v. Burns · Kem Manufacturing Corp. v. Howland · Fallon v. O'Brien · Gim v. Jan Chin, Inc.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“draw inferences from the testimony of witnesses, and such inferences, if reasonable, are entitled on review to the same weight as other factual determinations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cahill v. Morrow
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.