Williams v. Walsh’s Empirical Analysis
222 U.S. 415 · 1912
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1997 · most notably State v. Smith (1997), John Hendrick v. State of Maryland (1915)
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 53 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Davis v. United States · Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co. · Brown v. Maryland · Robbins v. Taxing District of Shelby Co Tennessee · Magoun v. Illinois Trust & Savings Bank
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he Fourteenth Amendment does not forbid statutes and statutory changes to have a beginning and thus to discriminate between the rights of an earlier and later time.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.