Walker v. Eldridge’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably Ruck v. Ruck (1956), 103 Ark. App. 207 - Hicks v. Cook (2008)
24 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 Weatherton v. Taylor · Coltharp v. Coltharp
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.
“[t]his is not a mere temporary award of custody pending a trial of the case upon its merits. As far as we can determine from the record, the parties had completed their proof and submitted the matter to the court.”
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.