Williams v. Messick’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 2011 · most notably MPC, Inc. v. Kenny (1977), Pat Perusse Realty Co. v. Lingo (1968)
36 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 Booth v. Robinson · Hoffman Steam Coal Co. v. Cumberland Coal & Iron Co. · Gaither v. Stockbridge · Parr v. State ex rel. Cockey · Cumberland Coal & Iron Co. v. Parish
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Of course, an application for a receivership might be denied on either of two grounds; either because it was considered improper to grant it, whatever the complainant’s right on the merits of the case averred, or because the rights were not established. And only an adjudication on the second ground would give rise to an estoppel by the decree against asserting those rights again in another action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Boland v. Boland““ 'The rule of mutuality is itself based upon policy and practical necessity and justice, as is the whole doctrine of res judicata, and on the same grounds of policy and justice there would be no objection to departing from it where the party affected has been given an adequate opportunity to be heard, either personally or by representation.’ ””
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.