Willner v. Committee on Character and Fitness, Appellate Div. of Supreme Court of NY, First Judicial Dept.’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
250 federal appellate · 42 district · 321 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 838 later decisions (45 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2015 · most notably Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth (1972), Goldberg v. Kelly (1970)
250 federal appellate · 42 district · 321 state decisions — followed in 41 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 Cafeteria & Restaurant Workers Union, Local 473 v. McElroy · In re Oliver · Greene v. McElroy · Schware v. Board of Bar Examiners of NM · Morgan v. United States
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 838 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(w)e are not . . . concerned with grounds which justify denial of a license to practice law, but only with what procedural due process requires if the license is to be withheld.”
26 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.