Williams v. . Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 1967
7 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 Dudley v. Easton · Neal v. Nelson · Avent v. Arrington · Doe on Demise of Tate's Heirs v. Southard · Lewis v. . Sloan
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defendants insist further that the possession of the feme defendant, the heir at law of the bankrupt, since his death in 1878, is color of title by descent. Counsel cited us some authorities from other States to that effect, but upon examination it is found that that has been made so by statute. Whatever the law may be elsewhere, there can be no such thing in North Carolina as color of title without some paper writing attempting to convey title.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barrett v. . Brewer“The decree of the district court ordering a sale of the reversionary interest in the land, not having been appealed from by the bankrupt, concluded him and binds the defendants who claim under him and are privies in blood and estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Joyner v. . Sugg“It (the decree) was not open to collateral attack, and the decision of the district court in the matter, where it had sole jurisdiction, was and is binding on our courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Joyner v. . Sugg
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.