Wallace v. Lawyer’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1934 · most notably Board of Commissioners v. Diebold Safe Lock Co, Baker v. State ex rel. Mills (1887)
26 state decisions — followed in 17 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 Pendleton v. Perkins · Merwin v. City of Chicago · Mayor of Baltimore v. Root ex rel. Armstrong · Mayor of Mobile v. Rowland & Co. · Burnham v. City of Fond du Lac
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And the decisions are generally made upon statutes authorizing corporations in terms to be garnished; yet the courts hold that the general word ‘corporation’ must be restricted to mean private or ordinary business corporations, and not extended to embrace municipal corporations or bodies politic and corporate. The words used in the statute of this state are ‘persons’ or ‘corporations’ in general terms.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.