Petty v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 1988 · most notably Lee v. Lee (1984), Clovis National Bank v. Thomas (1967)
38 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 Bogle v. Potter · Town of Mesilla v. Mesilla Design Center & Book Store, Inc. · Covington v. Rutledge Drilling Company
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We cannot condone such a total lack of regard, by attorneys practicing in this court, of the basic rules governing appeals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Trujillo v. Tanuz
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.