In Re Willis’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2014
23 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 Marron v. United States · Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co. · Samuel Gompers v. Buck's Stove & Range Company · New York New Haven Hartford Railroad Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · In re Watts
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Attorneys are officers of the court and are sworn to obey and respect. Their obligation in this respect must never be overlooked. But there must exist, at the same time, a freedom of thought among the members of the legal profession, and a right to their opinion and their expression of such opinion in good faith to their clients.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]here is nothing in the record to even indicate these attorneys advised a disregard of the injunction.”
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.