Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2002 · most notably Quick Service Box Co. v. St. Paul Mercury Indemnity Co. (1938), People v. Nesseth (1954)
2 federal appellate · 22 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. Chambers · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Hall · Commonwealth v. Costello · Alabama Consolidated Coal & Iron Co. v. Heald · Alabama Great Southern Railroad v. Jones
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A consideration of the cases will disclose as elements of forgery (1) that there must be a false making — • and this may be accomplished by ‘the fraudulent application of a false signature to a true instrument, or a real signature to a false’ instrument;”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.