Judson v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently July 1965 · most notably Commerce Trust Co. v. Woodbury (1935), Gibson v. Shull (1913)
9 federal appellate · 22 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 Bank of Versailles v. Guthrey · 53 N.J. Eq. 282 - Merchants' & Miners' Transportation Co. v. Borland · Reed v. Painter · City of St. Louis v. O'Neil Lumber Co. · Norcum v. D'Œnch
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no dispute of the general proposition that a voluntary conveyance by an insolvent debtor of his property to or for the benefit of his wife and children is deemed fraudulent as to his creditors, and void, in law; and that an assignment under such conditions of a life insurance policy [absent the statute] would have a like effect is also undisputed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if, instead of changing the beneficiaries in the policies, (the insured) had surrendered them, and taken their values in cash, and had afterwards applied for new policies * * * on the same plans,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“his increased age would have increased the cost, even if nothing else intervened.”
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.