Widmer v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
136 F.2d 416 · 1943
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 1991
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Glasser v. United States · Johnson v. Zerbst · Walker v. Johnston · Waley v. Johnston · Smith v. O'Grady
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'It must be remembered . . . that a judgment cannot be lightly set aside by collateral attack, even on habeas corpus. When collaterally attacked, the judgment of the court carries with it a presumption of regularity' and the prisoner is under the burden of proving by a preponderance of evidence the facts which he alleges entitle him to a discharge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““While it would doubtless be a better practice to record the fact of a determination of proper waiver of counsel, still the failure to do so does not negative that such determination was made. The recordation would go merely to the matter of proof.” 136 F.2d at page 418 .”
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.