Williams v. Fanning

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that absent party is not indispensable if relief-granting decree is effective without requiring that party “to do a single thing”
• applying Williams to F.R.C.P. 19(a)(1)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

192 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Larson v. Domestic and Foreign Commerce Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1949-10-10· cited 1,701×
• Harman v. Forssenius
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-27· cited 645×
• Gary A. Soucie v. Edward E. David, Jr., Director, Office of Science and Technology
  D.C. Circuit· 1971-04-13· cited 394×
• Shaughnessy v. Pedreiro
  Supreme Court· 1955-04-25· cited 330×
• Malone v. Bowdoin
  Supreme Court· 1962-05-14· cited 328×
• Stafford v. Briggs
  Supreme Court· 1980-02-20· cited 324×
• Neal Clark v. State of Washington, and Washington State Bar Association, an Agency of State Government, the State Bar of California, Amicus Curiae
  Ninth Circuit· 1966-10-31· cited 215×
• Hynes, Regional Director, Fish & Wildlife Service v. Grimes Packing Co.
  Supreme Court· 1949-05-31· cited 152×
• Deering Milliken, Inc., a Corporation v. Reed Johnston, as Regional Director of the National Labor Relations Board
  Fourth Circuit· 1961-10-13· cited 137×
• Hernández Agosto v. López Nieves
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1983-10-03· cited 109×
• United States v. Jones
  Supreme Court· 1949-04-18· cited 64×
• Estrada v. Ahrens
  Fifth Circuit· 1961-11-30· cited 58×
• Fahey v. O'Melveny & Myers Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco v. O'Melveny & Myers
  Ninth Circuit· 1952-12-17· cited 54×
• Adams v. Witmer
  Ninth Circuit· 1958-12-10· cited 47×
• Rank v. Krug
  S.D. California· 1950-04-13· cited 43×
• State of California, United States of America v. Everett G. Rank
  Ninth Circuit· 1961-08-14· cited 40×
• Alvin G. Smith, and v. Capt. James M. Campbell, Commanding Officer, U. S. Naval Schools Command, Mare Island, Vallejo, California, And
  Ninth Circuit· 1971-12-01· cited 40×
• Stonybrook Tenants Association, Inc. v. Alpert
  D. Connecticut· 1961-05-31· cited 40×
• Wettre v. Hague
  First Circuit· 1948-06-29· cited 38×
• Prairie Band of Pottawatomie Tribe of Indians v. Puckkee
  Tenth Circuit· 1963-08-07· cited 38×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Land v. Dollar
  Supreme Court· 1947-04-07· cited 1,339×
• United States v. Lee
  Supreme Court· 1882-12-18· cited 854×
• Webster v. Fall
  Supreme Court· 1925-01-05· cited 673×
• Philadelphia Co. v. Stimson
  Supreme Court· 1912-03-04· cited 450×
• Colorado v. Toll
  Supreme Court· 1925-05-11· cited 114×
• Warner Valley Stock Co. v. Smith
  Supreme Court· 1897-01-11· cited 106×
• Gnerich v. Rutter
  Supreme Court· 1924-06-02· cited 82×
• Leach v. Carlile
  Supreme Court· 1922-02-27· cited 67×
• Neher v. Harwood
  Ninth Circuit· 1942-06-05· cited 31×
• National Conference on Legalizing Lotteries, Inc. v. Goldman
  Second Circuit· 1936-07-17· cited 26×
• Jarvis v. Shackelton Inhaler Co.
  Sixth Circuit· 1943-06-01· cited 19×
• Dolphin v. Starr
  Ninth Circuit· 1942-09-16· cited 1×

Other cases named Williams v. Fanning

3 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Williams v. Fanning
  District of Columbia· 2014-08-11· cited 6×
• Williams v. Fanning
  Ninth Circuit· 1946-12-06
• Williams v. Fanning
  Supreme Court· 1947-04-14