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Walker's Case’s Empirical Analysis

2004

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
November 2017
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Young v. Duncan · Hanlon v. Rollins · Burns's Case · Gateley's Case · Neff v. Commissioner of the Department of Industrial Accidents

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “is a remedial statute and should be given a broad interpretation, viewed in light of its purpose and to 'promote the accomplishment of its beneficent design.'”
    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.