Walker v. Sauvinet’s Empirical Analysis
92 U.S. 90 · 1875
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 13 district · 159 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 392 later decisions (61 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), Duncan v. State of Louisiana (1968)
36 federal appellate · 13 district · 159 state decisions — followed in 38 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.
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 392 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Due process of law is process due according to the law of the land. This process in the states is regulated by the law of the state.””
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A trial by jury in suits at common law pending in the State courts is not ... a privilege or immunity of national citizenship, which the States are forbidden by the Fourteenth Amendment to abridge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cheek v. Zerbe
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.