Williamson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 1984
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 21 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Barnett v. Warren & Co. · Wiseman v. Lyman · City of Calais v. Whidden · Myers v. W. G. Lyon & Co. · Bates v. Quinn
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All the definitions come to this: That' to constitute a valid gift it must be voluntary, gratuitous, and absolute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shepard v. Shepard
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.