Williams v. Peyton's Lessee’s Empirical Analysis
17 U.S. 77 · 1819
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2002 · most notably Cts Corporation v. Dynamics Corporation of America Indiana (1987), Spiegel's Estate v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue (1949)
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 51 state decisions — followed in 23 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.
Relationships
Relies on Stead's executors v. Course · Parker v. Rule's Lessee
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the case of a naked power, not coupled with an interest, the law requires that every prerequisite to the exercise of that power should precede it. The party who sets up a title must furnish the evidence necessary to support it. If the validity of a deed depends on an act in pais, the party claiming under it is as much bound to prove the performance of the act as he would be bound to prove any matter of record on which the validity of the deed might depend.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Deputron v. Young
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.