Walker v. Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 1947
6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A tenant, in the possession of land at the time of its sale for taxes, is under obligation to pay the taxes, and therefore cannot buy so as to obtain title as against his landlord. The land itself is, in fact, the debtor to the public, and prima facie it is the tenant’s tax, because all the remedies are against him. Ordinarily, one who voluntarily pays the debt of another cannot recover the sum paid, but taxes paid by the tenant is not a voluntary payment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wood v. Morath
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.