Williams v. Eaton’s Empirical Analysis
468 F.2d 1079 · 1972
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 1991
22 federal appellate · 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
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District · Zenith Radio Corp. v. Hazeltine Research, Inc. · School District of Abington Township Pennsylvania v. Schempp J Murray III · Blackburn v. Alabama
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“on the entire evidence [it] is left with the definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stafos v. Jarvis
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.