Williams v. Gilbert’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. Ellenwood · Garrison v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. · Harrelson v. Whitehead · Russell v. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. · Bridgforth v. VANOIVER
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“poses no threat of serious injury to anyone except the child himself.”
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.