State v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably El Dorado at Santa Fe, Inc. v. Board of County Commissioners (1976), Hyde Park Company v. Santa Fe City Council (2000)
30 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 State Ex Rel. Otto v. Field · State Ex Rel. McElroy v. Vesely · State ex rel. Evans v. Field · State v. Marron · State Ex Rel. Walker v. Hinkle
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'an act or thing which [one] is required to perform by direction of law upon a given state of facts being shown to exist, regardless of his own opinion as to the propriety or impropriety of doing the act in the particular case.'”
7 later decisions 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.