Williams v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2004 · most notably Brown v. Haley (1987), Pettus v. Keeling (1987)
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 Reid v. Garnett · Gaines v. Merryman · 62 W. Va. 223 - Walton v. Knight · Field v. Brown
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 way has been thus used, openly, uninterruptedly, continuously and exclusively for a period of more than twenty years....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McNeil v. Kingrey
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.