Adams v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2018
3 federal appellate · 14 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 United States v. Mosby · State v. McFetridge · Renfroe v. Colquitt · People v. Hartley · United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Union Trust & Savings 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But the bond had the proper condition, that said Williams ‘should properly account for and dispose of the money coming into his hands for the Yazoo-Mississippi delta levee board and should faithfully perform all other duties devolving upon him as such treasurer.’ ” (p. 135.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.