Williams v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 1979
15 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 Sistare v. Sistare · Matilda Von Ellert Sistare v. Horace Randall Sistare · Guess v. Smith · McGregor v. McGregor
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“does not authorize the court to set aside a decree rendered at a former term and render another in lieu thereof, but only to change or modify the terms of a former decree in accordance with the after-arising circumstances of the parties.”
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.