Williamson v. Clay’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably Hood v. Queen City Coach Company (1959), Firemen's Mutual Insurance v. High Point Sprinkler Co. (1966)
27 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 Council v. Dickerson's, Inc. · Hall v. Coble Dairies, Inc. · Singletary v. Nixon · Marshburn v. Patterson · Barnes v. Caulbourne
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Actionable negligence embraces negligence and proximate cause. The elements of each have been clearly defind. Ramsbottom v. R. R., 138 N.C. 38, 41, 50 S.E. 448 ; Hall v. Coble Dairies, 234 N.C. 206 , 67 S.E. 2d 63 . There is no controversy as to these well established rules.” Williamson v. Clay, 243 N.C. 337 , 90 S.E. 2d 727 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Galloway v. Hartman“[T]he law imposes upon every person who enters upon an active course of conduct the positive duty to exercise ordinary care to protect others from harm, and calls a violation of that duty negligence.”
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.