Durham v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 1937
7 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 Rice v. Brown · City of Harrisburg's Appeal
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.
““Defendants’ plea of general denial is not leveled at averments of simple facts, but at allegations of facts pregnant with a legal proposition or deduction. They do not deny the existence of the account sued on, nor the averment that the items charged therein were furnished to their plantation, but they deny that such, an account, such dealings, and such transactions could, by operation of law, make them the debtors of plaintiff; but they aver that if such an indebtedness can be legally deduced from such state of facts, that the indebtedness has been extinguished by novation in the manner suggested in their answer. “This plea is merely in the alternative, and has been sanctioned by our jurisprudence in many instances.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.