Walker v. Williamson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 state decisions

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““(Purely voluntary conveyances are per se fraudulent as to existing creditors, regardless of the intent of either of the parties or knowledge of the grantee’ of the existence of his grantor’s indebtedness, and the law seems to be that conveyances upon the sole consideration of future support are, at least to the extent that they have not been executed, voluntary ones within this rule. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hamilton v. Cunningham