Williams v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Cape Henry Towers, Inc. v. National Gypsum Co. (1985), 146 W. Va. 22 - Farley v. Graney (1960)
35 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 Carter v. Commonwealth of Virginia Dickerson · People v. Mayes · Timson v. Manufacturers Coal & Coke Co. · Dickerson v. Commonwealth · Beardsley v. Irving
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the [General Assembly] did not intend to do a vain and useless thing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“That a matter is judicially noted means merely that it is taken as true without the offering of evidence by the party who should ordinarily have done so. * * * But the opponent is not prevented from disputing the matter, if he believes it disputable.” (quoting Wigmore, Evidence § 2567 (3d ed.1946)) (emphasis in original)); see also Fed.R.Evid. 201(g) (requiring that jurors in criminal cases be instructed that they may reject judicially noticed facts). 2 . See, e.g., United States v. Dior, 671 F.2d 351 , 358 n. 11 (9th Cir.1982) (recognizing that a court taking”
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.