Williams v. Huff’s Empirical Analysis
142 F.2d 91 · 1944
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently November 2008 · most notably National Mut Ins Co of District of Columbia v. Tidewater Transfer Co Inc (1949), 67 Cal. 2d 365 - People v. Lara (1967)
33 federal appellate · 2 district · 12 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Walker v. Johnston · Riddle v. Dyche · Wood v. United States · Evans v. Rives
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It seems to me to follow as a matter of law that a boy of seventeen cannot competently waive his right to counsel in a criminal ease.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Poff“age, education, and information, and all other pertinent facts”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Matter of FDP
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.