Williams v. Burdick’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 1933
8 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 William Tayloe v. The Merchants' Fire Insurance Company of Baltimore · Sanders v. Pottlitzer Bros. Fruit Co. · Moody v. Richards · Taffe v. Smyth · Frush v. City of East Portland
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In an action tried by a court without a jury, the receipt of incompetent evidence, properly excepted to, is not prejudicial, unless injury has necessarily resulted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Puffer v. Badley““the apparent mutual assent of the parties, which is essential to the formation of a valid agreement, is to be gathered from the language that they have employed. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.