Williams v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 1995 · most notably Hangar One, Inc. v. Davis Associates, Inc. (1981), Bartsas Realty, Inc. v. Leverton (1966)
3 federal appellate · 32 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 Colby v. Lee · Carbone v. Boston & Maine Railroad · Bjork Ex Rel. Bjork v. United States Bobbin & Shuttle Co. · Welch v. Miller · Morrison v. Hall
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The meaning of effective cause for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not a broker has earned his commission has been stated as follows: “An agent is an ‘effective cause’... when his efforts have been sufficiently important in achieving a result for the accomplishment of which the principal has promised to pay him so that it is just that the principal should pay the promised compensation to him.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“conduct that is more than merely trifling.”
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.