Williams v. Lowe’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 1960
13 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.
Most-quoted passages
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“The objection that the decree as amended is one to enforce a construction contract, *Page 464 cannot avail the appellant, first, because the agreement is not a construction contract but a contract to convey a house, the completion of which was an incident and not the object of such contract. Second, because the rule invoked, while it justifies the court in refusing to do what it cannot be required to do, does not prevent it from so doing as incidental to other relief in exceptional cases; and third, because the appellant cannot lay as a ground for reversal a feature of the decree made at his own suggestion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.