Ward v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably English v. Jones (1955), Massillon Engine & Thresher Co. v. Barrow (1921)
26 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 Stallings v. Hullum · Jackson v. Torrence · Clements v. Lacy · Tobin v. Larkin · Hill v. Conrad
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We are unable to see anything unconscionable, inequitable, or unjust in requiring the appellees to perform, so far as they are able, the contract which they have deliberately made. The legal effect of the contract was that each of them for sufficient consideration bound himself to sell and convey the land, so far as he was able; that is, his undivided interest."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Christian v. Rabren
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.