Williamson v. Doe’s Empirical Analysis
1843
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 1921
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 Williams v. Peyton's Lessee · Nicholls v. Webb · Chill v. Hornish
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is evident that the- powers of the commissioner, above specified, are limited, special, naked powers, not coupled with an interest. The law respecting such powers is, that they must be strictly pursued to render valid the acts of the agent possessing them. The facts on which the right to exercise his .powers depends, must exist, or his transactions will be without authority and void.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vail v. McKernan
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.