Walker v. Heller’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 1953
15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It would seem to have been the intention of the Legislature, that a plaintiff should not dismiss his action, where the trial is had by the court, after the finding is announced. If he could do this, he could secure the benefit of two trials in the same cause, by commencing his action anew, the first finding being against him.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ Sec. 363. An action may be dismissed without prejudice : “ First.' By the plaintiff, before the jury retire; or when the trial is by the court, at any time before the finding of the court is announced.” 2 R. S. 1876, p. 184.”
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.