Walker v. . Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
1 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1962 · most notably Hovey v. Elliott (1897), Campbell v. Justices of the Superior Court (1905)
1 district · 28 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Brinkley v. . Brinkley · Manning v. Manning · Rice v. . Ehele · Birdsall v. Pixley · Farnham v. Farnham
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That there has long been exerted by the Court of Chancery in England the power to refuse to hear the defendant when he was in contempt of the court by disobeying its orders, and that that power was in the courts of chancery of this country.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hovey v. Elliott“if the defendant appeared before the secundum decretum, he was liable to a mulct, for he could not be heard in the cause till he had cleared his contempt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hovey v. Elliott“the answer will not be received without clearing his contempt”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hovey v. Elliott
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.