Williams v. Gibson’s Empirical Analysis
1887
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2015 · most notably Frost-Johnson Lumber Co. v. Salling's Heirs (1922), Scott v. Laws (1919)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 41 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Marvin v. . Brewster Iron Mining Co. · Wilms v. Jess · Tennessee & Coosa Railroad v. East Alabama Railway Co. · Melton v. Lambard
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.
“These incidental rights of the miner, which are appurtenant to the grant of the mineral rights, are to be gauged by the necessities of the particular case, and, therefore, vary with changed conditions and circumstances.”
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.