Wallace v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 1997 · most notably Union Trust Company v. Madigan (1931), Deener v. Watkins (1935)
30 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 Booe v. Vinson · Watson v. Wolff-Goldman Realty Co. · Wright v. Hicks · Horsley v. Hilburn · Wilkins v. Allen
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘A remainder,’ says Mr. Tiedeman, ‘is therefore a future estate in lands, which is 'preceded and supported by a particular estate in possession wbicb takes effect in possession immediately upon tbe determination of the prior estate, and wbicb is created at tbe same time and by tbe same conveyance.’ Tiedeman on Real Property (3rd Ed.), section 296. “A remainder is a residue of an estate in land, depending upon a particular estate, and created together with tbe same. 2 Tbo. Co. 126. After quoting tbe above definition, Professor Graves, in bis notes on Real Property, section 173, commenting thereon, says: ‘In order that there may be a remainder, there must be a particular estate upon wbicb it may depend; . . . ’ ” 1”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gibbs v. Bates““4. It is my desire and I do hereby will that my two plantations situated in Howard county, Arkansas, and known as the McDaniel and Block farm be held intact and in trust for my legal heirs for the term of twenty-five (25) years after my death. The manager or superintendent of said farm is to use my office or residence in Saratoga, Arkansas, as a residence or business office, the net proceeds of the rental of said farm to go to my legal heirs each year. After the twenty-five years have expired said lands may be sold or divided for the benefit of my said heirs. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walt v. Bevis“In the strictly proper sense of the word, no one is an heir until after the death of the ancestor, and the word signifies one who has succeeded to a dead ancestor; it is used to express the relation of persons to some deceased ancestor, and cannot be applicable to one whose ancestor is living.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wheeler v. Myers
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.