Williams v. Riddle’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 1957 · most notably Urban v. Hartford Gas Co. (1952), Shields v. Booles (1931)
27 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.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To sustain a recovery plaintiff must not only show damages, but the damage must he the natural and probable consequence of the words used. Lynch v. Knight, 9 H. L. Cas. 591; 8 Eng. Rul. Cas. 387. The damáge here alleged is too remote, uncertain and speculative, to claim the attention of a court. Field v. Colson, 93 Ky. 348 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. Moseley
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.