Williams v. . R. R.’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 2006
9 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 Linville v. . Nissen · Taylor v. . Stewart · Edwards v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad · Crampton v. Ivie Bros. · Bagwell v. . R. R.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that the plaintiff was in a position to have heard the signal, whistle, or bell if it had been sounded or rung, and that she was not engaged in anything that would have distracted her attention.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.