Walters' Case’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
2 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently April 1994 · most notably Waits' Estate (1939), City of Bridgeport v. Reilly (1946)
2 district · 47 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 Arnold's Estate · Moser's Estate · Rife v. Geyer · In re Hoffmann · Directors of the Poor & of the House of Employment of Montgomery Co. v. Nyce
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * his discretion is but a legal one, and, whenever the law determines that a proper case has arisen in which the trustee’s discretion should have been exercised in a particular way, he will be constrained to act in accordance therewith.” ( 278 Pa. at p. 423 , 123 A. at p. 409 ).”
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.