Williamson v. Beardsley’s Empirical Analysis
137 F. 467 · 1905
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 1959
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Wood v. Carpenter · Lady Washington Consolidated Co. v. Wood · St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Co. v. Johnston · Norris v. Haggin · St Louis Ry Co v. Johnston
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The possession of the means of knowledge is equivalent to knowledge itself. A party who'has the opportunity of knowing the facts of which he complains cannot avail himself of his inactivity, and thus escape the imputation of laches. The grounds of attack against the validity of the orders of sale and the executor’s deeds were matters of record.” Williamson v. Beardsley, 69 C. C. A. 615 , 618, 137 Fed. 467 , 470.”
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.