Walker v. Keenan’s Empirical Analysis
73 F. 755 · 1896
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1922
5 federal appellate ·
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 Covington Stock-Yards Co. v. Keith · Eastern Building & Loan Ass'n v. Williamson · Union Trust Co. of New York v. Atchison, T. & S. F. R.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Thai; In case any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act shall do, cause to be done, or permit to be done any act, matter or thing in this act prohibited or declared to be unlawful, or shall omit to do any act, matter or thing in this act required to be done, such common carrier shall be liable to the person or persons injured thereby for tile full amount of damages sustained in consequence of any such violation of the provisions of this act, together with a reasonable counsel or attorney’s fee, to be fixed by the court in (>vory case of recovery, which attorney’s fee shall be taxed and collected as part of the costs in the case.””
1 later decision 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.