Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 1976
2 district · 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 Bowman v. State · People Ex Rel. Municipal Gas Co. v. Rice · Garland Power & Development Co. v. State Board of Railroad · Haney v. State · Boyles v. McMurphy
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A statute is passed as a whole, and not in parts or sections, and is animated by one general purpose and intent. Consequently, each part or section should be construed in connection with every other part or section, and so as to produce a harmonious whole.””
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.