Theis v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2014
12 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 Hess v. Conway
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Counsel for the respective parties agree, with commendable candor, that as a general rule, under ordinary circumstances, an attorney who has recovered a judgment for his client has authority, by virtue of such employment, to receive payment on such judgment and may enter satisfaction of the same.” (p. 223.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Ward
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.