Walker v. Duncan’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Forsyth County v. Martin (2005), Smith v. Bruce (1978)
36 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 Tietjen v. Meldrim · East Atlanta Land Co. v. Mower · Stanfield v. Brewton · Ross v. Hall County Board of Commissioners · Savannah Beach v. Drane
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the recording of a subdivision plat not only acts as the grant of an easement to the purchasers of the property, but also raises a presumption of intent to dedicate to the public.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a developer sells lots according to a recorded plat, the grantees acquire an easement in any areas set apart for their use.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bolinger v. Neal
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.