Willard v. Willard’s Empirical Analysis
145 U.S. 116 · 1892
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 5 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2017 · most notably Hopkins v. Grimshaw (1897), Clark v. Roller (1905)
9 federal appellate · 5 district · 33 state decisions — followed in 12 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.
Relationships
Relies on Brown v. Brown · Hunt v. Hazelton
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In a court having general jurisdiction in equity to grant partition, as in a court of law, a tenant in common, whose title in an undivided share of the land is clear, is entitled to partition, as a matter of right, so that he may hold and enjoy his property in severalty. * * * “This statute, while it authorizes the court to compel a partition by division or by sale, at its discretion, as the facts appearing at the hearing may require, does not affect the general rule, governing every court of law or equity having jurisdiction to grant partition, that partition is of right, and not to be defeated by the mere unwillingness of one party to have each enjoy his own in severalty.’’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wolfe v. Stanford“In a court having general jurisdiction in equity to grant partition, as in a court of law, a tenant in common, whose title in an undivided share of the land is clear, is entitled to partition, as a matter of right, so that he may hold and enjoy his property in severalty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carter v. Carter““Any allegation of special reasons for partition, or for haying it made in one way or in the other, would have been unusual and superfluous.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wolfe v. Stanford
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.