Williams v. Masters’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 1962
10 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 Ross v. Frick Co. · Herrin v. Henry · Adams v. Sims
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Appellant also contends for a reversal of the decree on the ground that under the contract W. H. Maners’ only remedy was to remain in possession of the property and collect his indebtedness out of the rents. There may have been something in this contention if B. L. Williams had not become insolvent and a bankrupt. The proceedings in bankruptcy placed him and appellant in a position where they could not carry out the contract relied upon.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.