Williams v. Blumer’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 2010
3 federal appellate · 3 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 Bass v. Nooney Co. · Gast v. Ebert · Emerick v. Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. · Connell v. Western Union-Telegraph Co. · Borrow v. El Dorado Lodge, Inc.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the preferable starting date for the beginning point of the limitation period is the filing of the mandate”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Payne v. Kemna“the date of the mandate carries a note of finality.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Payne v. Kemna
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.