Wilson v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
595 F.2d 101 · 1979
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently November 2013
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 Illinois v. Allen · Diaz v. United States · Taylor v. United States · Phelps Dodge Corp. v. AFL-CIO Joint Negotiating Committee · Gagnon v. Scarpelli
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]ecause a defendant has `no unilateral right to determine the time or the circumstances under which he would stand trial,' a district court generally acts within its discretion if it proceeds with trial when the defendant's absence is the product of sheer willfulness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“speculated that exercise of such discretion may only be appropriate in multiple-defendant cases.”
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.