Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
March 2008
most recently cited
4 federal appellate ·
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“completely sovereign in nature and completely foreign to any activity which could be carried on by a private person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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