Williams v. Finley’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
September 1990
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Board of Trustees of University of Illinois v. United States · Tres Ritos Ranch Co. v. Abbott
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“every species of commercial intercourse between the United States and foreign nations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dunn
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.