Williams v. Harrington’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently November 2012
2 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 26 U.S.C. § 661
Relies on In Re Estate of Cooper · 419 So. 2d 389 - Price v. FLORIDA NAT. BANK OF MIAMI
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For us to embark upon the task-and to, in effect, call upon trial courts in like situations to embark upon the task-of adjusting the statutory scheme to accommodate perceived equities would, we believe, not be a proper judicial role.”
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.