Walkup v. May’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 1913
18 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 Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railroad v. Spencer · Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago Railway Co. v. Grames · Conner v. Citizens Street Railway Co. · Chicago, St. Louis & Pittsburgh Railway Co. v. Burger · Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railroad v. Brunker
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It [the verdict] does not show that Sharpe saw appelant before the accident, nor in time to have turned out for him. Neither does it appear that it was light enough for him to see him, nor that he was not on the lookout.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Swift & Co.
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.