Williams v. Wicker’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently April 1994 · most notably Maslankowski v. Beam Ex Rel. Quernemeon (1972), City of Mobile v. Havard (1972)
52 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 Birmingham Southern R. Co. v. Harrison · Boyette v. Bradley · Richards v. Williams · Strickland v. Davis · Karpeles v. City Ice Delivery 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Nor do we consider that the use of the word ‘the’ preceding negligence in the charge in any manner misled the jury into an understanding that negligence of Williams was assumed, but if thought misleading plaintiff could have asked an explanatory charge. Whether its use would have justified its refusal is a different matter, not here necessary to discuss.””
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.