Walkley v. Bostwick’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 1926
1 federal appellate · 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 Tutein v. Hurley · Howeth v. Mills
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘‘At most, the act of defendants amounted to no more than a formal assertion that the ownership of plaintiff’s land was in John Walkley, and that they proposed to maintain that assertion by legal proceedings. * * * When a-sheriff levies his execution on the personal property of one who is a stranger to the judgment, there is a positive wrong, because there is a positive interference with the owner’s possession. There might also be a trespass in the levy of execution on lands, if the officer were to go upon the lands for the purpose, but it is not pretended that he did so in this ease. Here the plaintiff finds her injury in the bare fact of levy; in other words, in the bare fact that these two defendants, without malice, have asserted that another party owns the land. But in law this is not an actionable wrong.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lant v. Manley
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.