Williams v. Baldwin’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 1976 · most notably Southern Surety Co. v. Nalle & Co. (1922), Old Colony Insurance Company v. City of Quitman (1961)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 25 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 Equitable Surety Co. v. United States ex rel. McMillan · Kilgore v. North West Texas Baptist Educational Society · Equitable Surety Company v. United States of America · G., H. & S. A. R'y Co. v. Henry & Dilley · First National Bank v. Fidelity & Deposit Co.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No change or alteration in the plans, building, construction or method of payment shall in any way avoid or affect the liability on said bond, and the sureties on said bond shall be limited to such defenses only as the principal on said bond could make.””
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.