Williams v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 1985
2 federal appellate · 19 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 Evans v. Evans · Waring v. Lewis · Duckworth v. Duckworth's Adm'r · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Jones · Alston v. Alston
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“furnish a mode of reviewing and revising . . . decrees of the probate court by correcting errors which could and should have been corrected or prevented in the probate court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is therefore, likewise, the duty of the child to support the parent, if the parent is unable to support himself and the child is able so to do.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gamble v. Leva
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.