Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 1971 · most notably Humphrey v. Boschung (1971), Hale v. Southern Ry. Co. (1932)
24 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 Foster-Fountain Packing Co. v. Haydel · Postal Tel. Cable Co. v. Minderhout
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.
““The Court of Appeals holds that there was sufficient evidence to take the case to the jury as to whether or not the shrimp were taken from the prohibited zone, and this finding will not be reviewed by this Court. Postal Telegraph Cable Co. v. Minderhout, 195 Ala. 420 , 71 So. 91 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Humphrey v. Boschung
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.