Williams v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2025
20 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 Sanguinetti v. Sanguinetti · Succession of Chavis · Western States Construction, Inc. v. Michoff · Castle v. Simmons · Sack v. Tomlin
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Hulings supported by substantial evidence will not be disturbed on appeal”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Substantial evidence is that which a sensible person may accept as adequate to sustain a judgment.”
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.