Williams v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently April 1932
3 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 Eyster v. Hatheway
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Counsel for Jones contend that the object of this limitation of the homestead exemption was merely ‘to protect the vendor’s lien,’ and hence insist that, the vendor’s, lien being waived by taking personal security on the original notes, the protection of the statute is lost. ' There is no-ground for saying the limitation in the statute was intended merely to protect the vendor’s lien. It is not so-limited by its words.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hamra v. Fitzpatrick
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.