Walker v. Hatcher’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 1980
6 federal appellate · 12 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 Sandlin v. Barker · Wray v. Howard · Dodson v. Middleton · Glory v. Bagby · Harlan v. Peck
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.
““No action for the recovery of any estate, sold by a guardian, can be maintained by the ward, or by any person claiming under him, unless_ it is commenced within three years next after the termination of the guardianship, or when a legal disability to sue exists by reason of minority or otherwise, at the time when the 'cause of action accrues, within three years next after the removal thereof.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pitman v. Owens““Any person entitled to bring an action for the recovery of real property, who may be under any legal disability when the cause of action accrues, may bring his action within two years after the disability is removed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pitman v. Owens““It is not material whether the guardian’s deed was valid, voidable or void.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anicker v. Harrison
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.