Grady v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 1991 · most notably N&d Fashions, Inc., a Minnesota Corporation and Nelly Don, Inc., a Missouri Corporation v. Dhj Industries, Inc., a New York Corporation (1977), Eley v. Brunner-Lay Southern Corporation, Inc. (1972)
6 federal appellate · 25 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 Cowin v. Salmon · Prestwood v. Carlton · Heartsill v. Thompson · Smith-Howard Gin Co. v. Ogletree · Richardson v. Curlee
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.
“One who has executed a written contract in ignorance of its contents cannot set up his ignorance to avoid the obligation in the absence of fraud or misrepresentation. Prestwood v. Carlton, 162 Ala. 327, 50 So. 254; Regional Agricultural Credit Corp. [of Washington, D. C.] v. Hendley, 251 Ala. 261, 37 So.2d 97.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Any conveyance of realty, of which a material part of the consideration is the agreement of the grantee to support the grantor during life, is void at the option of the grantor, except as to bona fide purchasers for value, lienees, and mortgagees without notice, if, during the life of the grantor he takes proceedings in equity to annul such conveyance.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Isenhower v. Finch
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.