Williams v. . Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 1996
2 district · 17 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.
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.
“* * * As the term `church' imports an organization for religious purposes, a gift to a church or a church society by name, without declaration or restriction as to use to be made of the subject matter of the gift, must be deemed to be a gift for the promotion of the purposes for which the church was organized and, therefore, to be a gift for a charitable purpose and to be valid if the other elements of a valid charitable gift exist. * * *”
1 later decision 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.