Walker v. Karpan’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably In Re Rights to Use Water in Big Horn River (1988), Estate of Dahlke ex rel. Jubie v. Dahlke (2014)
31 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 Mathews v. Eldridge · Goldberg v. Kelly · American Sterilizer Co. v. Sybron Corp. · Bi-Metallic Investment Company v. State Board of Equalization · Wolfe Londoner v. City and County of Denver
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court will affirm rulings of the district court for any proper reason appearing of record, even if the articulated reasons are incorrect.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jlk v. Mab · Redland v. Redland““When the case comes to us from a district court acting as an intermediate appellate court we review the case as if it had been appealed directly to this court without affording special deference to the rulings of the district court.””
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.