Williams v. Dollison’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably 51 Ohio St. 3d 46 - Doyle v. Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles (1990), 76 Ohio St. 3d 290 - State v. Williams (1996)
77 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 Bell v. Burson · Dixon v. Love
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Due process of law implies, in its most comprehensive sense, the right of the person affected thereby to be present before the tribunal which pronounces judgment upon a question of life, liberty or property, to be heard, by testimony or otherwise, and to have the right of controverting, by proof, every material fact which bears on the question of right in the matter involved. If any question of fact or liability be conclusively presumed against him, such is not due process of law.'”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re L.H. · In re A.N.B.
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.