Block Level Link Juice

[CsmBill]

I need a better understanding of how links in different parts of the page pass juice. Much has been written about how footer links pass less juice than other parts of the page. The question I have is that if a page has a hypothetical 1000 points of Link Juice and can pass on +/-800 points via links, and I have 1 and only 1 link in the footer to another page, does it pass the full 800 points? Or... since  footers only pass a small fraction of link juice, it passes lets say 80 points, and the other 720 points stays locked up on the page. This question is a hypothetical - I'm just trying to understand relationships.

I don't know if I've explained the question too well, but if someone could answer i it, or point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it.

[Chris.Menke]

I don't think I've seen any tests on that but one way to test would be to put link to three separate but very similar pages from three other pages of very similar strength--one of those would have a link to one of the target pages from the footer, one would have a link to the second target page from the body, and one would have a link to  the third target page from the navigation bar.  All links would use the same nonsense anchor text.  Once all the pages percolated, you'd expect that a search in google for the nonsense term would show that the top result would be from the strongest link.