Walker v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1961
5 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 Hooks v. Bridgewater · Ormsby v. Ratcliffe · Citizens' Nat. Bank of Brownwood v. Texas Compress Co. · Harper v. Lott Town & Improvement Co. · Whitehead v. Weldon
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the making by the vendee of valuable and permanent improvements upon the land with the consent of the donor; or, without such improvements, the presence of such facts as would make the transaction a fraud upon the purchaser if it were not enforced”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Turner v. Rogers
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.