Williams v. Walker-Thomas Furniture Co.’s Empirical Analysis
350 F.2d 445 · 1965
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 49 district · 261 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 440 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2024 · most notably Carnival Cruise Lines, Inc. v. Shute (1991), Cheshire Mortgage Service, Inc. v. Montes (1992)
45 federal appellate · 49 district · 261 state decisions — followed in 34 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 Henningsen v. Bloomfield Motors, Inc. · Hume v. United States · Campbell Soup Co. v. Lojeski · Mandel v. Liebman
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 440 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unconscionability has generally been recognized to include an absence of meaningful choice on the part of one of the parties together with contract terms which are unreasonably favorable to the other party.”
78 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“such as no man in his senses and not under delusion would make on the one hand, and as no honest and fair man would accept on the other.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[if] a contract be unreasonable and unconscionable, but not void for fraud, a court of law will give to the party who sues for its breach damages, not according to its letter, but only such as he is equitably entitled to.”
2 later decisions 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.