Walls v. Russell’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 2007
2 federal appellate · 6 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 First National Bank of Wichita Falls in Wichita Falls v. Stricklin · Miller v. Burkett
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We hold under the circumstances of this case both parties prevailed as defendants and both failed to prevail as plaintiffs. Technically, actually, and legally two separate actions were involved — two actions which were in effect consolidated for trial * * *. Each action should, therefore, have been dealt with individually with regard to awarding attorney fees.” 519 P.2d at 938 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he prevailing party shall be allowed a reasonable attorney fee to be set by the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“bearing on fair compensation for the professional services rendered.”
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.