Floyd v. Clayton’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 1992 · most notably Merchants Nat. Bank of Mobile v. Cotnam (1948), Abney v. DeLoach (1887)
27 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 Kittredge v. Folsom · Halfman's v. Ellison & Sons · Bibb v. Mitchell · Pipkin v. Hewlett · Hallet v. Branch Bank at Mobile
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Technical accuracy, the certainty of description essential in pleading, may not be observed, but the statement must, of itself, inform the personal representative, on an inspection of it, of the nature, character, and amount of the liability it imports, and must distinguish it with reasonable certainty from all similar claims.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Watson v. Hamilton
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.