Walling v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 1990
16 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 Craig v. Leslie · Bowen v. Swander · Myers v. Carney · Comer v. Light · Nelson v. Nelson
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Appellants concede that the interests of the beneficiaries vested at the testator’s death. At this time the equitable conversion took place, although the time of sale and actual conversion was fixed by the will at a more or less remote and indefinite time, namely, at the- death of the life tenant. . . . “Their interests vesting at the time of the testator’s death, attached as personalty, for one claiming property, under a will must take it in the character impressed upon it by that instrument. The beneficiaries here are not entitled under the will to the land itself, but to the proceeds of the land, and their interest is not an interest in real estate, but an interest in the proceeds of real estate, which by virtue of equitable conversion assumes the character of personal property, and maintains that character until the actual conversion, although in certain instances the rights of third parties may intervene and attach as of the character of real property.. ..””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.