Williams v. Hines’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably 464 So. 2d 530 - Bankers Multiple Line Ins. Co. v. Farish (1985), Dudley v. Harrison, McCready & Co. (1937)
49 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 New Orleans Co v. Jopes · Doremus v. Root · McGinnis v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. · King v. Chase · Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Crosby
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It does not appear to us from the evidence in this case that the plaintiff was negligent, nor is there any plea to this effect; so that there is no question of contributory negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“recover damages from a railroad company.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.