Ruthena Williams, Etc. v. The Honorable C. P. Rubiera’s Empirical Analysis
539 F.2d 470 · 1976
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2006
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Younger v. Harris · Gerstein v. Pugh · Argersinger v. Hamlin · Huffman v. Pursue, Ltd. · Samuels v. J Mackell Fernandez
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f relief were granted in this case it would have the effect of a federal court telling a state court how to run an ongoing criminal prosecution, i.e., whether it could constitutionally try the defendant without appointed counsel.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“would have the intrusive impact on the state proceeding that Younger and its progeny abhorred.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“declares that 'the Judges in every State shall be bound' by the Federal Constitution, laws and treaties.”
1 later decision 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.