Linton v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1858
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 1986
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 Hyde v. Stone · Fonda v. Van Horne · Anon · May v. Calder
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 a man who has no title to be guardian, enters as guardian into the lands of an infant, it. is at the election of the infant to make him a disseisor, ... or else to dissemble the wrong and call him to an account as a guardian.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rear v. Olson
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.