King v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2013
1 federal appellate · 20 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 Haverlack v. Portage Homes, Inc. · 116 Ohio St. 281 - City of Wooster v. Arbenz · Dougherty v. Torrence · Hall v. City of Youngstown · 44 Ohio App. 2d 22 - Nanna v. Village of McArthur
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The defense that the officer, agent, or servant of the municipal corporation was engaged in performing a governmental function, shall be a full defense as to the negligence of: “(A) Members of the police department engaged in the operation of a motor vehicle while responding to an emergency call.” (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Adams v. Peoples
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.