Felix v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 1937
9 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 De Lissa v. Fuller Coal & Mining Co. · Bierer v. Fretz · J. B. Dinsmore & Co. v. Stimbert · Scandinavian Coal & Mining Co. v. Whittaker
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In that case the writing in question did not purport to be that of the defendant; therefore the denial of its execution by the defendant did not require verification upon oath. ... the defendant was not bound in the first instance to give evidence in avoidance of the note, because he was not charged with having executed it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pinegar v. Webster
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.