Adams v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
3
states following
July 1994
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Smith v. Bond · Nantahala Power & Light Co. v. County of Clay · F. D. Cline Paving Co. v. Southland Speedways, Inc. · Livermon v. Roanoke & Tar River Railroad · Stone Co. v. Rich
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The payment made by the Highway Commission was not a payment voluntarily made by the debtor. The taking of the land was over the protest of debtor and creditor. Compensation for the taking was enforced by judicial proceeding. Since the payment was not voluntary, the debtor had no right to direct how it should be used, nor did the creditor have that right____Since neither debtor nor creditor had a right to direct the manner in which the payment should be used, it became the duty of the court to direct application so as to accord with “intrinsic justice or the equity of the case.””
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.