Young v. Knight’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
1 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2001 · most notably 170 W. Va. 483 - State Ex Rel. Walker v. Giardina (1982), Bryant v. State (1971)
1 district · 23 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Hoffman v. United States · Rogers v. United States · Crook v. Schumann · Riley v. Wallace · Gordon v. Commonwealth
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No person ... shall be compelled, in any criminal case, to be a witness against himself ...;”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"* * * a court of general jurisdiction, such as a circuit court, is not deprived of jurisdiction to deal with contempt by a disobedient or recalcitrant witness within the age of the juvenile court's jurisdiction, as in the instant case."”
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.