Williams v. Keller’s Empirical Analysis
1870
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 1992
17 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As a general rule, change of place of trial is eminently within the discretion of the court to which the motion is addressed; but when the motion is made under the peculiar language of the statute cited, on the ground of residence, there is no room for the exercise of discretion. The statute is peremptory in that regard, and the party making such motion is entitled to have the same granted, that he may plead or take such other action as he may be advised; and to that end, it is his privilege to have the ruling and decision of the judge of the place of his residence, upon any question arising subsequently to the necessary order, upon his demand and motion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stocks v. Stocks
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.