Fitzgerald v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 1991 · most notably McDonnell v. Improvement District No. 145 (1911), Board of Improvement of Sewer District Number 2 v. Moreland (1910)
4 federal appellate · 37 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.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"No single improvement shall be undertaken which alone will e,xeeed in cost twenty per centum of the value of the real property in such district as shown by the last county assessment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. Hamilton
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.