Christian v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1892
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently August 1973 · most notably Baisley v. Baisley (1893), Holker v. Hennessey (1897)
34 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 Person v. . Grier · Matthews v. . Tufts · Little v. Harrington · Bishop v. Vose · Nichols, Shepherd & Co. v. Larkin
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Suits instituted by summons shall, except as otherwise provided by law, be brought: First, when the defendant is a resident of the state, either within the county in which the defendant resides, or in the county within which the plaintiff resides, and the defendant may be found.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hale v. Wharton
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.