Bay v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably Tweeddale v. Tweeddale (1903), 195 Ill. App. 3d 976 - Hickox v. Bell (1990)
8 federal appellate · 46 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Dean v. Walker · Thompson v. Dearborn
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The courts are not harmonious, — not even the courts in! the same states, — and it may be added that the cases are not capable of being reconciled. . . . On the mere authority of adjudged cases in other tribunals, we would have to vacillate to keep in line.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.