State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
August 1994
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Oklahoma v. New Mexico · Miller v. Miller · State Ex. Rel. Com'r of Ins. v. Nc Auto., Etc. · Barron v. Ford Motor Co. of Canada Ltd. · Schofield v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen the literal interpretation of a statute contravenes the manifest purpose of the statute, the reason and purpose of the law will be given effect and the strict letter of the statute will be disregarded.”
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.