Walker v. Tucker’s Empirical Analysis
1873
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently January 2006 · most notably 3 E.H. Smith 489 - Dolan v. . Rodgers (1896), Butterfield v. Byron (1891)
4 federal appellate · 53 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Cunningham v. Hamilton · Smith v. Wise, Stigleman & Co. · Ohio & Mississippi Railway Co. v. Jones
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that excuse is by law implied, because, from the nature of the contract, it is apparent that the parties contracted on the basis of the continued existence of the particular person or chattel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.