Walker v. Clements’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 2018
7 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 Farish v. Wayman · Mowery v. Coffman · Crisman v. Swanson · Carr v. Effinger · Hurt v. Hurt
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.
“as follows: We do not find in the Lawson will, and in the devise to Albert T. Hall, such language as”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“I want all my property, real estate, money and bonds to go to my brother, Albert T. Hall, to use as he sees fit At his death I want what ever is left to be divided equally between my sister, Fannie Walker, and my nephew, Malvin Bernard Horsley. In die event that either is already deceased then I want it all to go to the one left”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[o]nly one question is involved here, and that is whether Albert T. Hall was given a life estate in the property bequeathed and devised him by Henrietta M. Lawson, as the appellant contends, or whether, as appellees argue, Albert T. Hall took a fee simple and absolute estate in the property of the testatrix ... the will of Henrietta M. Lawson did not give Albert T. Hall an express estate for life, coupled with the power of absolute disposition during his lifetime. Hall either took a life estate or he received a fee simple interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Baillio v. Donn
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.