Walker v. Conant’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2006
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Brand v. Williams · Mayer v. Mayor of New York · Barker v. Parker · Eagle Bank of New-Haven v. Smith · Knapp v. Hobbs
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule is general that money paid under a mistake of material facts may be recovered back, although there was negligence on the part of the person making the payment; but this rule is subject to the qualification that the payment cannot be recalled when the situation of the party receiving the money has been changed in consequence of the payment, and it would be inequitable to allow a recovery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ There need be no privity of contract alleged or proved other than such as arises out of the fact that the defendant has received the plaintiff’s money, and which, in equity •and good conscience, she ought not to retain.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Corey v. Webber
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.