Williams v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 29 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2024 · most notably Consolidated Rail Corporation v. Gottshall (1994), Clohessy v. Bachelor (1996)
13 federal appellate · 29 district · 47 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 Dillon v. Legg · 48 Cal. 3d 644 - Thing v. La Chusa · Bovsun v. Sanperi · Kelley v. Kokua Sales and Supply, Ltd.
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“results ultimately from policy decisions made by the courts and the legislatures.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“negligent infliction of emotional distress”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.