Williams v. Bergin’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2001 · most notably Stockton Automobile Co. v. Confer (1908), People v. Fitzpatrick (1904)
30 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 Scammon v. City of Chicago · Minard v. Douglas County · Mahoney v. Braverman · Clarissy v. Metropolitan Fire Department · People v. O'Neil
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A notice, which, by its terms, is directed to A., is ineffectual as a notice to B., even though it is delivered to B., and he is thereby informed of its contents.””
2 later decisions 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.