Williams v. Peterson’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 1981
1 district · 9 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 Bank v. Atkinson · Roman v. Albert · Bast v. Bast · Kuhn v. Stansfield · Payson Exch. Sav. Bank v. Tietjen
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by constitutional provisions and statutory enactments the common-law disabilities of married women have been abrogated, and married women are in all respects, with reference to their separate property and power to contract, on the same footing as other persons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Madsen's Est.
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.