McKay v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 1965
1 federal appellate · 14 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 Antoine Michoud v. Peronne Bernardine Girod · Claflin v. Farmers' & Citizens' Bank of Long Island · People ex rel. Plugger v. Township Board of Overyssel · Jackson ex dem. Gilbert v. Burgott · Clute v. Barron
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The law esteems it a fraud in such a trustee to take, for his own benefit, a position in which his interest will conflict with his duty.’ It cannot be claimed that Mrs. Williams is a good-faith purchaser, without notice of the invalidity of her grantor’s title. A purchaser of real estate is bound by what appears in the chain of title through which he claims. The defendant was chargeable with notice of the fraud which appeared upon the face of the conveyances.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hay v. Long
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.