Williams v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently February 1972 · most notably Henderson v. Fisher (1965), Jensen v. Housley, Administrator (1944)
3 federal appellate · 40 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 Fred v. Asbury · Naylor v. Shelton · Hinkle v. Hinkle
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“property in consideration of services, we think that difference of no materiality and that the principles of the Williams case are applicable to this one. 14 In the Williams case, an elderly man had entered into an oral agreement with his nephew whereby the nephew was to take care of him during the remainder of his lifetime, in consideration of which he was to”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Steele v. McCargo“* * * The evidence shows, therefore, that the contract was made, and that the plaintiff has earned the enjoyment of its fruits. His rights are not to be defeated because there may be some doubt as to the mode in which he was finally to secure the enjoyment, * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Steele v. McCargo“* * * it is entirely unimportant as to the particular method in which the property was to be conveyed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Steele v. McCargo
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.