Jackson v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 1963
17 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 St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co. v. Grayson · Murray v. Galbraith · Greer v. White · Stallings v. Whittaker · Kies v. Young
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As stated in 25 Cyc. 335, ‘the rule now is that the words are to be taken in their plain and natural meaning, and to be understood by courts and juries as other people would understand them, and according to the sense in which they appear to have been used and the ideas they are adapted to convey to those who heard or read them. ’ ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Goodman v. Phillips
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.