Sutton v. . Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2009
2 federal appellate · 3 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 Eaton v. . Kelly . · Holt v. . McLean · Crumpler v. . Governor · State Ex Rel. Butts v. Brown · State Ex Rel. M. v. Prince Chairman v. McNeill
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The condition of the above obligation is such that, whereas the above bo unden... is elected and appointed sheriff of ... County; if, therefore, he shall well and truly execute and due return make of all process and precepts to him directed, and pay and satisfy all fees and sums of money by him received or levied by virtue of any process into the proper office intp which the same, by the tenor thereof, ought to be paid, or to the person to whom the same shall be due, his executors, administrators, attorneys, or agents; and in all other things well and truly and faithfully execute the said office of sheriff during his continuance therein, then the above obligation to be void; otherwise to remain in full force and effect.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The principle thus stated is upheld in Crumpler v. Governor, 12 N. C. 52 ; Governor v. Matlock, 12 N. C. 214 ; State v. Long, 30 N. C. 415 ; State v. Brown, 33 N. C. 141 ; Prince v. McNeill, 77 N. C. 398 . If the principle is available to the defendants under C. S. § 324, the general clause in the bond will be limited by the preceding conditions to the execution and return of process and precepts and the payment of money received or levied by virtue of process. In that event the present action of course could not be maintained.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]Ilegal conduct on the deputy’s part could expose the Sheriff to civil liability. Indeed, in law he occupied a status of alter ego of the Sheriff officially.”) (emphasis in original); Sutton v. Williams, 199 N.C. 546 , 155 S.E. 160 , 161-62 (1930) ("At common law, if a jailer permitted the escape of a prisoner, ... the sheriff had to answer for the default... .[N]ow, as a general rule, subject of course to exceptions, a sheriff is liable for the act or omission of his deputy as he is for his own.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jenkins v. Medford
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.