Williams v. Carr’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently April 2004 · most notably Roofing & Sheet Metal Services, Inc. v. La Quinta Motor Inns, Inc. (1982), Union Pacific Railroad v. Sharp (1997)
16 federal appellate · 26 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 Wallis v. Mrs. Smith's Pie Co. · Peugh v. Oliger · Scott v. Jansson · Prickett v. Farrell · Blanton v. Missouri Pacific Railroad
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Predictability of results. (2) Maintenance of interstate and international order. (3) Simplification of the judicial task. (4) Advancement of the forum's governmental interests. (5) Application of the better rule of law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“free to apply the substantive law of a sister state where it finds that such state has a significant interest in the outcome of the issues involved.”
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.