In Re Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Dobson v. Harris (2000), State v. DeLaBruere (1990)
6 federal appellate · 30 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 Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. Y Button · Sherbert v. Verner · West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette · Prince v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We find no merit in the contention that the sentence was originally imposed when the contemner was not represented by counsel, or in the contention that the court was under a duty to appoint counsel for him. Summary punishment for direct contempt committed in the presence of the court does not contemplate a trial at which the person charged with contempt is represented by counsel. . . . There is no basis for the contention that to carry out the sentence would deprive him of his liberty without due process of law on the ground that he was denied a hearing or denied representation by counsel of his choice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The liberty secured by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and by Article I, § 26, of the Constitution of North Carolina are, however, so basic and fundamental that one may not be compelled by governmental action to do that which is contrary to his religious belief in the absence of a ‘compelling state interest in the regulation of a subject within the State’s Constitutional power to regulate.’ ” (Citations omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“no human authority shall, in any case whatever, control or interfere with the rights of conscience.”
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.