Pledger v. Halvorson’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2025
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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 Chrisco v. Sun Industries, Inc. · Haase v. Starnes · Pledger v. Troll Book Clubs, Inc. · Corning Bank v. Bank of Rector · Arkansas Department of Human Services v. Kistler
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e have stated that the intention is inferred from the nature of the chattel, the relation and situation of the party making the annexation, the structure and mode of annexation, and the purpose for which the annexation has been made. Coming Bank [v. Bank of Rector, 265 Ark. 68 , 576 S.W.2d 949, 952-953 (1979)], This Court has stated that the intention of the person making the annexation is a consideration of primary importance. Farmers [Union] Mutual Ins. Co. v. Denniston, 237 Ark. 768 , 376 S.W.2d 252 (1964). However, contrary to the assertion of the dissent, "courts apply an objective test and arrive at the annexer's intention by looking to his outward acts rather than to the inner workings of his mind.” Id. (emphasis supplied).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) whether the items are annexed to the realty, (2) whether the items are appropriate and adapted to the use or purpose of that part of the realty to which the items are connected, and (3) whether the party making the annexation intended to make it permanent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Glenn v. Bubbus
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.