Williams v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently April 2007 · most notably 5 Va. App. 188 - Evans-Smith v. Commonwealth (1987), Teleguz v. Com. (2007)
42 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 Broudy-Kantor Co. v. Levin
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"evidence which derives its value, not solely from the credit to be given the witness on the stand, but in part from the veracity and competency of some other person. It is primarily testimony which consists in a narration by one person of matters told him by another. A clear example of hearsay evidence is where a witness testifies to the declaration of another for the purpose of proving the facts asserted by the declarant."”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Teleguz v. Com. · Weller v. Com.
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.