Williams v. McFadden’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently January 1994 · most notably Hines v. Brode (1914), 135 So. 2d 876 - Ramel v. Chasebrook Construction Company (1961)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 40 state decisions — followed in 10 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.
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“damages for whatever loss he may have sustained from being led into a disadvantageous purchase by willful misstatements of the vendor.”
1 later decision 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.