116 W. Va. 1 - Williams v. Brannen’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2002
14 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 Tumey v. State of Ohio · Capital Traction Co. v. Hof · Dugan v. Ohio · Forest Coal Co. v. Doolittle · Brown v. Epps
Most-quoted passages
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“Counsel would avoid the maxim on the grounds that the accused may have a jury instead of the magistrate to try him, and that the accused has the unrestricted right of appeal. Both of those grounds are unsubstantial. `Trial by jury,' in the constitutional sense, requires such a trial to be under the superintendence of a disinterested judge. Traction Co. v. Hof, 174 U.S. 1, 13-14 , 19 S.Ct. 580 , 43 L.Ed. 873 . It is ordinarily cheaper to pay a moderate fine than to pay the expenses attendant upon an appeal. For which reason many an innocent man has submitted to an unjust decision in an inferior court. Right of appeal does not meet the situation. The Constitution requires that the accused shall be tried before a fair and impartial tribunal in the first instance where he will not face the alternative of paying an unjust fine or of resorting to the delay, annoyance and expense of an appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“* * * due process of law requires that a magistrate's compensation must not depend upon a fund created by his own convictions.”
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.