Williams v. Greene’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 2013
16 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 Keystone Copper Mining Co. v. Miller · Manning v. Perry · Fritts v. Ericson · State Ex Rel. McElroy v. Vesely · Ehle v. Tenney Trading Co.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he vital question [is]: What action would best serve the interests of the State and its people? ... It is apparent from the record that the commissioner did not consider the best interest of the State but felt bound by the Defendant’s preferential right to the lease. It also appears that the trial court gave undue consideration to the rental value of the property. Starting with the premise that in leasing State land the benefits to be received by the State and its people are of primary importance, there are many factors to be considered in addition to the rental value. [Citation omitted.] This is particularly so where the land to be leased has been reclassified____ The financial interests of the State are inseparable from the full development and use of lands reclassified from grazing to commercial, suitable for residential or business purposes.”
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.