Wallach v. Van Riswick’s Empirical Analysis
92 U.S. 202 · 1875
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2022 · most notably Calero-Toledo v. Pearson Yacht Leasing Co. (1974), Heidritter v. Elizabeth Oil-Cloth Co. (1884)
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 Miller v. United States · Bigelow v. Forrest · Day v. Micou · Semmes v. United States
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“left in him no estate or intérest of any description which he could convey by deed, and no power which he could exercise in favor of another”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. French v. Wade · Pike v. Wassell“intended for the benefit of his heirs exclusively, to enable them to take the inheritance after his death.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. French v. Wade · Pike v. Wassell“In England, attainders of treason worked corruption of blood and perpetual forfeiture of the estate of the person attainted, to the disinherison of his heirs, or of those who would otherwise be his heirs. Thus innocent children were made to suffer because of the offence of their ancestor.”
1 later decision 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.