Willis v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
166 F.2d 721 · 1948
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 3 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently February 1981 · most notably United States v. Wight (1949), Mitchell v. United States (1958)
34 federal appellate · 3 district · 11 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 · Von Moltke v. Gillies · Carter v. People of State of Illinois · Canizio v. People of State of New York
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We think that the right to the effective assistance of counsel contemplates the guiding hand of an able and responsible lawyer, devoted solely to the interest of his client; who has ample opportunity to acquaint himself with the law and facts of the case, and is afforded an opportunity to present them to a court or jury in their most favorable light.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In considering the question whether a petitioner has been! accorded his constitutional right to the effective assistance of I counsel at every stage in the proceedings against him, we have! never found it necessary to decide precisely whether absence! of counsel when sentence is imposed in and of itself amounted! to a denial of that constitutional guaranty. We have stated,| however, that ‘an accused should have an opportunity to be heard by counsel on the sentence to be imposed and that court should not impose sentence in the absence of counsel without expressly ascertaining that a defendant does not desire his presence. . . .’ This for the reason that ‘many considerations influence the length of a sentence which is to be imposed, and a defendant should have the opportunity to have his attorney present any mitigating circumstances to the court,for its consideration in determining the-weight of the sentence,’””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ruiz Soto v. Rivera“... Since the right to counsel is a matter of substance not form, it is the solemn duty of the trial judge to make sure that representation is not an empty gesture, but is the fulfullment [sic] of the spirit and purpose of the constitutional mandate. (Citing cases.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ray 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.