Williams v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2011 · most notably 53 Tenn. App. 594 - Crouch v. Crouch (1964), Gonsewski v. Gonsewski (2011)
23 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whether the marriage be dissolved absolutely, or a perpetual or temporary separation be decreed, the court may make an order and decree for the suitable support and maintenance of the complainant and her children or any of them by the husband or out of his property according to the nature of the case and the circumstances of the parties....” (Emphasis added.) 2”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Massey v. Massey
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.