State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2006
2 district · 12 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 State v. Mandel · State v. Denton · People v. Gardner · State v. Fierro · People v. Burns
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.
““ * * * Although the period of a lifetime is indefinite and indeterminable, the court could say, as it did impliedly in this case, that the longest term for which the defendant under the circumstances should have been sentenced upon a conviction of second degree murder should be forty to fifty years, and fix the term upon conviction for the attempt at twenty to twenty-five years, or one-half of that time. Computed on this basis, the judgment under investigation comes strictly within the wording of the statute.” State v. Williams, 103 Ariz. at 285-286 , 440 P.2d at 312-313 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Durgin““A person who attempts to commit a crime shall be punished, where no provision is made by law for the punishment of such attempt, as follows: “1. If the offense so attempted is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for five years or more or by imprisonment in the county jail, by imprisonment in the state prison, or in a county jail, as the case may be, for a term not exceeding one half the longest term of imprisonment prescribed upon conviction of the offense so attempted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Durgin““* * * where a court is given the discretion to fix a period of years to life, it can take as the prescribed maximum such period of years as it deems proper as a base maximum and impose a sentence for the attempt at not to exceed one-half such base maximum, (citations omitted)” State v. Mandel, 78 Ariz. at 231 , 278 P.2d at 417 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Durgin
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.