Willard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Drollinger v. State (1980), Bieghler v. State (1985)
3 federal appellate · 85 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 Estes v. Texas · Murphy v. Florida · Bonanno v. United States · Bruce v. State · Lagenour v. State
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“solely on the ground that they were of the same or similar character.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Abner v. State · Graham v. State“"We will not reverse a trial court in its judgment on this issue even if there was a showing of some prejudice, where there was no reason to believe that any juror was so infected with preconceived opinions as to have been unable to judge the defendant wholly upon the law and evidence adduced at the trial."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Grimes v. State · Bauer v. State“I write merely to emphasize that only four of the five Justices voting to reverse rest on the proposition that televised criminal trials are constitutionally infirm, whatever the circumstances. Although the opinion, announced by my Brother CLARK purports to be an “opinion of the Court,” my Brother HARLAN subscribes to a significantly less sweeping proposition.... Thus today’s decision is not a blanket constitutional prohibition against the televising of state criminal trials.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.