Walker v. Wait’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 1937
2 federal appellate · 13 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 Norton v. Downer · Ormsbee v. Kidder
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A partnership or .joint-stock company is just as distinct and palpable an entity in the idea of the law, as distinguished from the individuals composing it, as is a corporation ; and can contract as an individualized and unified party, with an individual person who is a member thereof, as effectually as a corporation can contract with one of its stockholders. The obligation and the liability, inter partes, are the same in the one case as the other. The only difference is a technical one, having reference to the forum and form of remedy.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Bertenshaw
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.