Walkley v. City of Muscatine’s Empirical Analysis
73 U.S. 481 · 1867
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2001 · most notably State of New Hampshire v. State of Louisiana State of New York (1883), West Jersey Title & Guaranty Co. v. Industrial Trust Co. (1958)
14 federal appellate · 4 district · 8 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we have been furnished with no authority for the substitution of a bill in equity and injunction for the writ of mandamus,”
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.