Williams v. Creighton’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 1971
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 Ruland v. Ley · Osborn v. Younger
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The costs were not paid within one year, a certificate to this effect was secured from the Clerk of the El Paso Court of Civil Appeals, filed in the trial court and a dismissal of the cause thereby obtained in accordance with the provisions of Article 1867, R.C.S.192S. * * * ” (This corresponds to Rule 445).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brazzel v. Murray
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.