Willheim v. Murchison’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 1996
6 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1654
Relies on Koster v. Lumbermens Mut Casualty Co · Smith v. Sperling · 48 Cal. 2d 338 - Reed v. Norman · 160 F. Supp. 157 - MacNeil v. Hearst Corporation · Willheim v. Investors Diversified Services, Inc.
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.
“"While it might make for easier conduct of the litigation and a more prompt determination of the issues if Phillips were to retain counsel to represent him, rather than insisting upon proceeding in time wasting layman fashion in court appearances himself, nevertheless his right as an individual to appear in his own action is one which cannot be denied him by this Court."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“not even cover appearances by counsel in such actions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Phillips v. Tobin
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.