Williams v. Eggleston’s Empirical Analysis
170 U.S. 304 · 1898
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 8 district · 147 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 250 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2022 · most notably Lindsley v. Natural Carbonic Gas Co. (1911), United States v. Wheeler (1978)
23 federal appellate · 8 district · 147 state decisions — followed in 34 states
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 Spencer v. Merchant · Backus v. Fort St Union Depot Co · Forsyth v. City of Hammond · Parsons v. District of Columbia
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 250 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Neither can it be doubted that, if the state Constitution does not prohibit, the legislature, speaking generally, may create a new taxing district, determine what territory shall belong to such district and what property shall be considered as benefited by a proposed improvement. ’ ’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““As stated in Williams vs. Eggleston, 170 U.S. 304 , 18 S. Ct. 617, 619 , 42 L. Ed. 1047 : ‘The parties to a contract are the ones to complain of a breach, and if they are satisfied with the disposition which has been made of it and of all claims under it, a third party has no right to insist that it has been broken.’ ” 67 Wyo. at 472 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.