Walker v. U.S. General, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Valcarce v. Fitzgerald (1998), State v. Owen (1997)
2 federal appellate · 40 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 State v. Wareham · State v. Amicone · Bambrough v. Bethers · M & K Corp. v. Industrial Commission · Thayne v. Beneficial Utah, Inc.
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[bJrief of the appellant shall contain ... [an] argument [that] shall contain the contentions and rea sons of the appellant with respect to the issues presented, ... with citations to the authorities, statutes, and parts of the record relied on.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'the mental facilities [were] so deficient or impaired that there was not sufficient power to comprehend the subject of the contract, its nature and its probable consequences, and to act with discretion in relation thereto, or with relation to the ordinary affairs of life'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“but rather whether he objectively manifested consent to the employment relationship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.