State v. Willis’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. Booth (2001), Vo v. Superior Court (1992)
30 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 Dobbert v. Florida · Bouie v. City of Columbia · United States v. Wiltberger · 2 Cal. 3d 619 - Keeler v. Superior Court · 79 Ill. 2d 103 - People v. Greer
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“id. at 773-74 , 652 P.2d at 1224-25 (majority opinion and Wood, J., specially concurring); Salazar v. St. Vincent Hospital, 95 N.M. 150, 153 , 619 P.2d 826, 829 (Ct.App.1980), holding that a viable fetus was a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“until born alive there was no human being,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.