Finley v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Ragan v. Schreffler (1957), Schneider v. Johnson (1948)
2 federal appellate · 26 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 Creamer v. Bivert · Nelson v. Brodhack · Fugate v. Pierce · Cohn v. Lehman · East St. Louis Ice & Cold Storage Co. v. Herman H.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The consideration stated in this deed is ‘the sum of one dollar and other good and valuable consideration.’ The words, ‘one cent,’ ‘one dime,’ and ‘one dollar,’ are the technical words used to express nominal consideration. . . . The fact that the sum of one dollar is stated as a consideration is modified by the next clause, ‘and other good and valuable consideration,’ and such clause is open to investigation and explanation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boyers v. Boyers
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.