Williamson v. . Bitting’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 1963
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.
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.
“They (the deeds) were informally and inartificially drawn, but the intent to mortgage all he had in his father's estate, whether real or personal property, is perfectly evident. The law will not allow the plain intention to be defeated by any omission to use technical words to express it, if equivalent terms are employed for the purpose. This we held in Triplett v. Williams , 149 N.C. 394 ; Gudger v. White , 141 N.C. 513 ; and very recently in Acker v. Pridgen , 158 N.C. 337 ; Judge Story , in Tiernan v. Jackson , 5 Peters, 58 , said that, `Whatever may be the inaccuracy of expression, or the inaptness of the words used in an instrument, in a legal view, if the intention to pass the legal title to property can be clearly discovered, the Court will give effect to it, and construe the words accordingly.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Beacom v. . Amos
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.