Regan v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1905
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Wentz v. Price Candy Co. (1943), State Ex Rel. McClure v. Northrop (1919)
51 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Owings v. McKenzie · Pratt v. Conway · Nelson v. Brown · Sherwood v. Saxton · Goddard v. William'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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At the time of the sale the plaintiff had no interest in the property. He had no right to the proceeds of the sale. The money which, it is claimed, was applied in part payment of the note, was not his money. It would be applied by law to the extinguishment pro tanto of his debt, but the application was not under his control and involved no action of his mind.”
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.