Protho v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1972
2 federal appellate · 5 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 Horstmann v. LaFargue · Cairo & Fulton R. R. v. Turner · Chapman & Dewey Land Co. v. Wilson · Kreiling v. Nortrup · Missouri Pacific Railway Co. v. B. F. Coombs & Brother Commission Co.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . .The conduct of the commissioners, although not intended to deceive or to mislead the appellee, nevertheless had that effect, and to enable them or the district through them by virtue of this conduct to deprive her of her property would be perpetrating a fraud upon her through the forms of law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gipson v. Brand
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.