Williams v. Beto’s Empirical Analysis
354 F.2d 698 · 1965
Citation profile
156 federal appellate · 1 district · 107 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 332 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2022 · most notably Chambers v. Maroney (1970), 157 W. Va. 640 - State v. Thomas (1974)
156 federal appellate · 1 district · 107 state decisions — followed in 16 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 Michel v. State of Louisiana Poret · Douglas v. Alabama · Walker v. Johnston · Brulotte Et Al. v. Thys Company · Turner v. Louisiana
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 332 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The practice of law is an art as well as a science. As no two men can be exactly alike in the practice of the profession, it is basically unreasonable to judge an attorney by what another would have done, or says he would have done, in the better light of hindsight.””
41 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.