Williams v. . Barkley’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably City of New York v. New York City Railway Co. (1908), Bannon v. Bannon (1936)
7 federal appellate · 65 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Litchfield v. Crane · Holmes v. . Evans · Brown v. Mayor of New York · Dwight v. . St. John · Culross v. . Gibbons
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`if both the recitals and the operative part [of a contract] are clear, but they are inconsistent with each other, the operative part is to be preferred.' Ex parte Dawes, L.R. 17 Q.B. D. 275. See, also, Williams v. Barkley, 165 N.Y. 48, 58 N.E. 765.”
4 later decisions 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.