Wallis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
3 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently January 1972 · most notably Perkins v. Benguet Consolidated Mining Co. (1942), Wood v. Claiborne (1907)
3 district · 34 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Section 983. (M. D. 1640.) If any carrier or other bailee shall embezzle, or convert to his own use, or make way with, or .■secrete with intent to embezzle, or convert to his own use, any money, goods, rights in action, property, effects or valuable security, which shall have come to his possession, or have been delivered to him, or placed under his care or custody, such bailee, although he shall not break any trunk, package, box or other thing in which he received them, shall be deemed guilty of larceny, and ■on conviction shall be punished as in cases of larceny.””
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.