Williams v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 1961 · most notably In re Estate of Walkerly (1895), 68 Cal. App. 420 - Bank of Italy v. Newman (1924)
2 federal appellate · 30 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 Payne v. Payne · Rosenberg v. Frank · Quackenbos v. . Kingsland · Bushnell v. . Carpenter · Damrell v. Hartt
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there can be no doubt that the interest of Percy in this devise is a vested interest in fee, postponed merely in enjoyment. No other legal conclusion can flow from the language used [citing cases].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“There shall be vested absolutely in Percy, property or money, fifty thousand ($50,000) dollars.”
1 later decision 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.