Williams v. McCann’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 2023
6 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 Hyde v. Shine · Tucker v. Leonard · Luschen v. Stanton · McAllister v. Clark · Echolustee Oil Co. v. Johnston
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.
““TO HAVE AND TO HOLD said described premises unto the said parties of the second part, their heirs and assigns forever, free, clear and discharged of and from all former grants, charges, taxes, judgments, mortgages and other liens and incumbrances of whatsoever nature, except all outstanding interest in the oil, gas and other minerals in the above described land which might have been reserved or conveyed by prior grantors, • and a mortgage in favor of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, the indebtedness secured thereby being assumed by the grantees as a part of the consideration hereof.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[W]here two deeds had been issued covering the same tract of land to different grantees and that the first grantee had not placed his deed of record and the second grantee had searched the record and found no record of the filing of the first deed and thereupon filed his deed, the law will declare the party holding the first deed filed for record to be the owner of the land.”
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.