Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably Evans v. State (2001), State v. Smith (1999)
2 district · 52 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 Escobedo v. Illinois · Collier v. State of Nevada · McGuire v. State · Crowe v. State · Moser 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A prosecutor may not argue facts or inferences not supported by the evidence.”
4 later decisions 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.