Williams v. Hanna’s Empirical Analysis
1872
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 1914
3 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 Rosevelt v. . Brown
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The creditor, if he looks to the individual liability of stockholders at all> looks to those who are stockholders at the time he lends his credit and to those he should be content to look for the collection of his debt.””
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.