Willard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably State v. Bobo (1991), Grooms v. State (1968)
29 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.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That the right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate, ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hartley · Grooms v. State
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.