Boland v. Walters’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably 21 Ill. 2d 525 - Petersen v. Corrubia (1961), Chicago Title & Trust Co v. Wabash-Randolph Corp. (1943)
5 federal appellate · 23 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 Woodward v. Seely · Hunt v. Sain · Kamphouse v. Gaffner · St. Louis National Stock Yards v. Wiggins Ferry Co.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Unless the evidence be clearly to the contrary, a Court will presume that a parol agreement to impress real property with a servitude was made with a knowledge of the provisions of the Statute of Frauds, and was therefore intended as a license only, and not as an easement. A parol license is revocable although a consideration has been paid or expenditures have been made upon the faith of the agreement.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.