Williams v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 11 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 171 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably DeLaurentis v. City of New Haven (1991), O'Brien v. Alexander (1996)
15 federal appellate · 11 district · 18 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 Rosenblatt v. Baer · Burt v. . Smith · Colgate-Palmolive Co. v. Carter Products, Inc. · Hauser v. Bartow · 33 Ill. 2d 291 - Freides v. Sani-Mode Manufacturing 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 171 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A civil action cannot be maintained against any person, firm or corporation, for the publication of a fair and true report of any judicial proceeding, legislative proceeding or other official proceeding, or any heading of the report which is a fair and true headnote of the statement published. This section does not apply to a libel contained in any other matter added by any person concerned in the publication; or in the report of anything said or done at the time and place of such a proceeding which was not a part thereof.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“A malicious prosecution is one that is begun in malice, without probable cause to believe it can succeed, and which finally ends in failure.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Nor may such a cause of - action [for malicious prosecution] be ruled out on the ground, advanced by the court, that there must be “interference with plaintiffs person or property.” Although language in lower court cases may be found to such effect, the Court of Appeals has never so decided.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Engel v. CBS, Inc.
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.