Williams v. Paine’s Empirical Analysis
169 U.S. 55 · 1897
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 7 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2005 · most notably Taylor v. Beckham (1900), State of Louisiana v. James Rudolph Garfield (1908)
23 federal appellate · 7 district · 40 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on New York Life Insurance Company v. Statham et al. · Richard Bein and Mary His Wife v. Mary Heath · Jane Watson v. John Mercer · Randall v. Kreiger
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Wo agree generally that, although there are words of conveyance in pre-sentí in a contract for the purchase and sale of lands, still, if from the Wholo instrument it is manifest that further conveyances were contemplated by the parties, it will be considered an agreement to convey and not, a conveyance. The whole question is one of intention, to be gathered from the instrument itself.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tjosevig v. Donohoe““It is entirely plain, as we think, that the mere fact of the breaking out of a war does not necessarily and as a matter of law revoke every agency. Whether it is revoked or not depends upon the circumstances surrounding the case and the nature and character of the agency.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.