Walker v. O'Connell’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 1948
20 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.
Relationships
Relies on City of Eureka v. Merrifield · Kansas Pacific Railway Co. v. Pointer · O. V. Dodge & Co. v. Livingston
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A motion, after the dose of the evidence, to conform the pleadings to the proof, can never be granted where the''admission of the evidence was properly objected to when it was offered, upon the ground that it did not tend to support the allegations of the pleadings.””
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.