Williams v. Ray’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 2012
16 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 Johnson v. United States · In re Disbarment of Cooper · Miller v. Avirom · District of Columbia v. Air Florida, Inc. · Chase v. Gilbert
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]ecause the appeal is not entirely frivolous, sanctions are not appropriate”). 13 . -At oral argument Slater's counsel contended that an award of costs and attorneys’ fees would be inequitable because Biehl’s brief mentions a”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Slater v. Biehl
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.