Williams v. Flood’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 1947 · most notably C. W. Zimmerman Mnfg. Co. v. Daffin (1906), Shepard v. Mount Vernon Lumber Co. (1915)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 23 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Owens v. Lewis · Abell v. Munson · Putney v. Day · Russell v. Myers · Daniels v. Bailey
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not very important to discuss the exact nature of plaintiff's rights under the written contract. Whatever they were, they included an absolute sale of all the Umber described, subject only to such qualifications of the right of removal as the contract mentions. At most, this condition would only operate by way of forfeiture. The timber had all been paid for, and all belongc>d to plaintiff, unless lost by that forfeiture for nonremovaJL””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““If the interest of the vendee in the standing timber would cease at the expiration of the time limited in the contract for its removal, the effect of the extension would be to grant a new or further interest in 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.