Edwards v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 1991
17 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 Brown v. Mitchell · Sherman v. Sipper · Sparkman v. McWhirter · Stewart v. Miller · Olds v. Traylor
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where sufficient grounds exist for the rescission and cancellation of a conveyance, it may be set aside at the suit of those succeeding to the rights of the grantor. For example, where a deed or other conveyance has been procured by undue influence, and is not ratified by the person making it after the undue influence has ceased to operate, it may be set aside after his death at the suit of those succeeding to his rights.” 12 C.J.S. Cancellation of.Instruments § 45, p. 1016.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Glass v. Carpenter
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.