State v. Willis’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2007 · most notably Rogers v. Richmond (1961), Leyra v. Denno (1954)
3 federal appellate · 67 state decisions — followed in 10 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 State v. Howard · Commonwealth v. Cuffee · State v. Wilson · Duffy v. . the People · Commonwealth v. James
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The word `voluntary' is used not merely as contrasted with compulsory, but with a technical meaning indicating certain surrounding circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCleary v. State
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.