Williams v. Goodwin’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2019
18 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 24 Cal. 2d 81 - Lawless v. Calaway · O'Keefe v. South End Rowing Club · Lightner Mining Co. v. Lane · O'BANION v. Borba · 6 Cal. App. 3d 860 - Timmsen v. Forest E. Olson, Inc.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The word 'occupation' is synonymous with the word 'possession' and connotes a subjection of property to one's will and control.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Veiseh v. Stapp · Mikes v. Burnett“"The court held that the words 'lawful possession' as contained in the statute meant only ' "peaceable or quiet possession, contra-distinguished from possession which is not merely constructively tortious, but actually so." [Citation.]' [Citation.] The court declared that plaintiff's burden under the statute was satisfied by a showing of actual possession." ( Williams , supra , 41 Cal.App.3d at p. 508 , 116 Cal.Rptr. 200 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Veiseh v. Stapp“Actual possession is usually evidenced by occupation, by substantial enclosure, by cultivation or by appropriate use according to the particular locality and quality of the property.”
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.