Williams v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 1978 · most notably Kuberich v. Popovich (1965), O'Hanlon v. Ruby Gulch Mining Co. (1922)
25 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 McDermott v. Severe · Wilson v. McConnachie · Murphy v. Nett · Meier v. Buchter · Harley v. Williams
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Upon, the record we say that the will undertook to make a most- unnatural disposition of the property, and evidence of such fact is always admissible as a circumstance to be considered with other evidence, as tending to show an unbalanced mind or a mind easily susceptible to undue influence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Swan's Estate
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.