Walker v. Biddle’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably 1 Ark. App. 75 - Andres v. Andres (1981), Jones v. Jones (2014)
37 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 Armstrong v. Armstrong · Reeder v. Meredith · Gillespie v. Holland · Matthews v. Simmons
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Second, it is contended that since the Statute of Limitations, in the absence of concealment, runs in favor of the trustee of a constructive trust, Mathews v. Simmons, 49 Ark. 468 , his suit is barred by the seven year statute. The answer is that the constructive trust did not arise at the moment the deed was executed. It is the transferee’s repudiation of his promise that brings the trust into being. The evidence indicates that Walker did not claim the land as his own until after his sister Mary’s death in 1947; so that bar of the statute had not fallen when this suit was brought in 1952.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davidson v. Sanders
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.