Walker v. Woollen’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1936 · most notably Chicago Railway Equipment Co. v. Merchants' Bank (1890), Glidden v. Henry (1885)
25 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
Relationships
Relies on Hutchins v. Hanna · Franklin v. Thurston
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A note, in order that it be negotiable in accordance with the law merchant, must be payable unconditionally and at all events, and at some fixed period of time, or upon some event which must inevitably happen. But the note here, as we have seen, contains an unconditional promise to pay the money at the expiration of six months from its date. It contains a promise, it is true, to pay the money before that time if it should be made out of the sale of the property mentioned. But this conditional promise to pay the money before the time specified, unless performed, does not abrogate or interfere with the absolute promise to pay at the expiration of the time. The conditional promise not being performed, the absolute promise to pay at the expiration of the time specified remains in full force. Such conditional promise, embodied in a note containing an absolute promise to pay at a time specified, does not destroy the negotiable qualities of the paper, or take it out of the operation of the law merchant.””
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.