Walling v. Hannig’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 1988 · most notably Williams v. Jennings (1988), Henderson v. Jimmerson (1950)
36 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.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a husband is living in the same house with his wife he is liable to any extent for goods which he permits her to receive there. She is considered as his, agent and the law implies a promise on his part to pay the value. If they are not cohabiting, then he is in general only liable for such necessaries as from his situation in life it is his duty to supply her. But even when they are parted, if the husband has any control over goods improvidentially ordered by the wife so as to have it in his power to return them to the vendor, and he does not return them or cause them to- be returned, he adopts her act and renders himself answerable.””
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.