Railsback v. Walke’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 2009
20 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 Johnston v. Glancy · Fall v. Hazelrigg · Young v. . Dake · Wood v. Thornly · Johns v. Johns
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The result of the authorities seems to be that the fifth clause of the statute has no reference to contracts concerning real estate. Baynes v. Chastain, 68 Ind. 376 ; Fall v. Hazelrigg, 45 Ind. 576 ; Sobey v. Brisbee, 20 Iowa 105 ; Young v. Dake, 5 N. Y. 463 ; Wilson v. Martin, 1 Denio 602 . “It is the fourth clause alone which affects such contracts, and the exception concerning leases being a modification of this clause, would be found more appropriately at the end of it, as is the corresponding provision in the Iowa statute. Sobey v. Brisbee, supra.” (Our italics.) Railsback v. Walke, (1882), 81 Ind. 409, 412 .”
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.