Williams v. Carr’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2003 · most notably 6 Cal. 4th 965 - Potter v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. (1993), 8 Cal. 3d 855 - Brown v. Merlo (1973)
35 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 Seeger v. Odell · 9 Cal. 2d 279 - McCann v. Hoffman · 30 Cal. 2d 193 - Cope v. Davison · 59 Cal. 2d 554 - Shahinian v. McCormick · 18 Cal. 2d 863 - Donnelly v. Southern Pacific Co.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]illful misconduct implies the intentional doing of something either with knowledge, express or implied, that serious injury is a probable, as distinguished from a possible, result, or the intentional doing of an act with a wanton and reckless disregard of its consequences.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.