Walker v. Sarven’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 1981
8 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 O'Hara v. MacConnell · Iglehart v. Wesson · Newbold v. Smart · Garvin v. Watkins · Hubbard v. Ascutney Mill Dam 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * If either party had paid more than his just share of the joint debt, he could have maintained a suit for contribution against his co-tenant, and enforced his right to contribution as against his co-tenant’s interest in the land. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Applebaum v. Appel
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.