Wilson v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably Sierra Club v. Hodel (1988), Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance v. Bureau of Land Management (2005)
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 32 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
Applies 43 U.S.C. § 932
Relies on Hester v. Sawyers · Smith v. Mitchell · Hatch Bros. v. Black · Montgomery v. Somers · Bishop v. Hawley
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no particular method required or recognized as the proper one for the establishment of highways under this grant. Generally the construction of a highway or estáblishment thereof by public user is sufficient.”); Lindsay Land & Live Stock Co. v. Churnos, 75 Utah 384 , 285 P. 646 , 648 (1929) (”
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.