Williams v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 1959
6 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 Watkins v. Junker · Becknell v. Becknell · Johnson v. Brown · Feary v. Hamilton · Boon v. F. M. Weathered's Administrator
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The personal actions which at common law die with the person are causes of action where the damages are personal in nature; as for instance, anguish of mind, injury to character, deprivation of liberty, and bodily injury. [Citing cases.] But where the damages sustained affect property rights or interest therein, the right of action survives against the executor or administrator.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Aldridge v. Stout
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.