Rennolds v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2018
16 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 Jackson's Administrator v. Wickham & Northrop · Williams' Administrator v. Dean · Booth v. Dotson · City of Charlottesville v. Stratton's Administrator
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here must be such parties to the record as can be affected by the judgment and from whom obedience can be compelled.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ray v. Ready · Briggs v. Moring“A decree or judgment against one who was dead when the suit or action was brought, or a writ of error awarded to a defendant in a judgment against a plaintiff who was dead when the writ was applied for, is a nullity . . . suits must likewise be defended by living parties. You cannot sue a dead man. The fact that a plaintiff does not know that the defendant is dead at the time he brings his suit is wholly immaterial. The situation remains the same; the defendant was dead at the time the suit was brought.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“passed beyond the jurisdiction of the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. White v. Martin
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.