Walker v. Staley’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2016
2 district · 10 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.
Relationships
Relies on Allen v. Tritch · Pomeranz v. Class · Shuck v. Quackenbush · Roberts v. Dietz · People ex rel. Pomeranz v. District Court
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is beyond the purpose of such proceedings to try contested title to real property. Where title to real property claimed to belong to a judgment debtor stands in the name of another, the creditor’s suit is the proper proceeding to subject the property to the satisfaction of a judgment.””
2 later decisions 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.