Williams v. Steele’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Fulton v. Finch (1961), Pearson v. State (1958)
69 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
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any person interested in the estate of a decedent or ward may have the proceedings of the county court therein revised and corrected at any time within two years after such proceedings were had, and not afterwards; provided, that persons non compos mentis, infants and femes covert shall have two years after the removal of their respective disabilities within which to apply for such revision and correction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The orders of the county judge made in this estate constitute ‘proceedings of the county court,’ which the district court may review by certiorari. The fact that a proceeding is void does not prevent the district court from exercising its appellate jurisdiction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dodge v. Youngblood
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.