Wall v. Wall’s Empirical Analysis
1855
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently December 2009 · most notably Spencer v. Robbins (1886), Stroup v. Stroup (1895)
45 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Jackson ex dem. Watson v. McKenny · Jackson ex dem. Wood v. Swart
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the one case [a deed] the conveyance takes effect in praesenii, to a certain extent; in the other it. has no effect whatever until the death of the testator.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cox v. Reed
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.