Williams v. Vaughan’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably Brown v. Koulizakis (1985), Bloodworth v. Ellis (1980)
75 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 Ferguson v. Ferguson · Green v. Smith · Shelton v. Mullins · Leath v. Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad · Hodge v. American Family Life Assurance Co. of Columbus
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is conclusively apparent that plaintiff has proven no cause of action against defendant,”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“should not undertake to determine the truth or falsity of testimony or to measure its weight.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[U]nless sworn testimony is irreconcilable with logic and human experience, [a trial court] must accept it as true, and [all] inferences which a jury might fairly draw from plaintiff's evidence must be drawn in [the plaintiff's] favor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Howell v. Sobhan
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.