Williams v. Pool’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
September 1968
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bledsoe v. Burleson · City of Brownsville v. Crixell · Wright v. Stone · Brown v. Tyner
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled that either the granting or refusing of new trials is largely within the discretion of the trial court, and his action will not be reviewed unless clearly abused.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Flowers v. Flowers
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.