Walker v. Lea’s Empirical Analysis
47 F. 645 · 1891
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1984
1 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Henry Toland v. Horatio Sprague · Fletcher v. United States
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the authority of the United States marshals and their deputies to act in an official capacity is confined to the respective districts for which they have been appointed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ford v. Allen
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.