Williams v. Guthrie’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably 91 So. 2d 795 - Hayes v. Bowman (1957), Adams v. Elliott, Et Vir (1937)
35 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 Shively v. Bowlby · Weber v. The Board of Harbor Commissioners · Brickell v. Trammel · Trustees of the Freeholders & Commonalty of Brookhaven v. Smith · State ex rel. Ellis v. Gerbing
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he only issue was as to who had the better title to the dock standing on the submerged lands of the bay.”
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.