Williams v. Gilbert’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 1937
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 The President Directors and Company of the Bank of Columbia v. Peter Hagner · Eddy v. . Davis · George v. Conhaim · Gregory v. Christian · Goss v. Broom
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.
““Clearly the covenant by plaintiff to pay the purchase price, and the covenant of defendant to convey, are mutual and dependent. The payment was to be made when the sale was consummated by a proper conveyance, and the conveyance was to be made when the money was paid or legally tendered, on the day provided by the contract.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gassert v. Anderson
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.