Williams v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 1965
22 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.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This is a habeas corpus proceeding conducted by a district judge * * * for the purpose of determining the care and custody of two children of tender years. In such a case, pleading is of little importance * * * In other words, the rule is that the powers of the judge are liberally construed * * * Under this rule, the district judge is not bound by any technical rules of pleading, but has a right to hear the full facts and act in the light thereof.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burson v. Montgomery
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.