Williams v. Cammack’s Empirical Analysis
1854
Citation profile
3 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1961 · most notably In re the Bonds of the Madera Irrigation District (1891), Carroll County v. Smith (1884)
3 district · 30 state decisions — followed in 16 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.
Relationships
Relies on Calder et Wife, v. Bull et Wife. · City of Bridgeport v. Housatonuc Railroad · Lansing v. Smith · Thomas v. Leland
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““a means to an end, legitimate and proper in itself— a mere incident to the power of taxation, and a remedy for its enforcement without which the power itself would fail.””
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.