Williams v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably Rediker v. Rediker (1950), Carpenter v. Carpenter (1956)
1 federal appellate · 35 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Patterson v. Gaines · Carroll v. Carroll · Wightman v. Wightman · Hynes v. . McDermott · Bacon v. Bacon
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“then she was incapable of entering into the marriage contract with”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in any proceeding in any court between any parties . . . .”
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.