Willis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
4
states following
February 2019
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wisconsin v. Yoder · Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same · Quilloin v. Walcott · Townsend v. State · Sanders v. State
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) whether the actor is a parent; (b) the age, sex, and physical and mental condition of the child; (c) the nature of his offense and his apparent motive; (d) the influence of his example upon other children of the same family or group; (e) whether the force or confinement is reasonably necessary and appropriate to compel obedience to a proper command; (f) whether it is disproportionate to the offense, unnecessarily degrading, or likely to cause serious or permanent harm.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he decision of whether a claim of parental privilege has been disproved is entrusted to the fact-finder.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] person is justified in engaging in conduct otherwise prohibited if he has legal authority to do so.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.