Walt v. Bevis’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2023
14 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 · Archer v. Palmer · McKinney v. Dillard Coffin Company · Wallace v. Wallace · Parker v. Wilson
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“law favors the early vesting of estates, and that, if a deed or will is susceptible of a dual construction, by one of which the estate becomes vested and by the other it remains contingent, the former construction will be adopted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fisher v. Boling“Where an estate in land is created by will, it will be deemed to be an estate in fee simple if a less estate is not clearly indicated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fisher v. Boling
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.